Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.
Wherever there’s a human being there’s going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.
Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.
My mom was definitely very strict with me.
Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
I wouldn’t recommend working with your partner for everyone, because it’s tough. There’s got to be a really keen balance. You’ve got to know when to stop being the manager and become the husband. I can’t go home and complain to my husband about my manager.
Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.
To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
What’s the point if you make something that’s not you, and you’re successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.
There’s some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn’t make a difference. They could be anywhere.
The reason I’m not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam – and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.
I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band – just for fun – when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.
Everybody’s not as fortunate as I’ve been that can have their hubby with them on the road, that we can do whatever we want and mainly be honest with the kids. Just the time that you do give them, make it be great time. It doesn’t have to be hours.
My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch ‘The Andy Williams Show’ on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn’t be interested in.
There are so many difficult things we’re living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.
I’m careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don’t take it lightly.
I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.
I love Gershwin. I love musicals.
The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it’s a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it’s in my head.