I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.

I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

I was just teasing, " I say. "I myself don't like to eat plain butter, but hey, it's a free world.

You have to enjoy the game. I enjoy everything about life.

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.

When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, Fair, beautiful and whole!

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.