You want your fans to like what you do, because it’s coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It’s like your baby.
I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people’s music really helped me.
It’s crucial with today’s challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.
If you’re trying to do what’s popular now, you’re way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it’s moved on.
Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.
Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.
My daughter is almost a young lady. She’s going to be 10 years old in December and I want to be there day-in and day-out.
I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There’s no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They’re going to paint, they’re going to write.
We kiss and hug our kids a lot! And even now when our son lives 3,000 miles away, we talk every day, sometimes several times.
Performing is one of the best feelings I know!
My guitar and singing was my way of crying.
Well first of all, I’m a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.
I’ve bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.
It’s not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We’re just human beings that are still a work in progress and there’s a lot that we’ve got to overcome, so that we can all be equal.
In Europe there’s the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that’s harder to break into.
The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.
This blend of musicians on ‘90 Millas’ is historically significant on a number of levels. This is the first and quite possibly the last time that all of these legendary artists will play together on one CD.
My favorite process is writing, from day one. The songs I have written throughout the years were a real great opportunity for me to communicate, because I think tha’ts my prime objective on this planet.
There is nothing better than humor to keep a marriage going.
Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.