I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

When you are passionate about life, it keeps you young. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 am just to see how my roses look.

My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.

There were many times when I had to emotionally come to terms with the fact that maybe I wasn't ever going to get married. And I started getting comfortable with that.