Ive always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.

Everybody has their own story, everybody has their own journey.

I don't consider myself a skilled enough instrumentalist to be able to create the atmosphere that I want with just my guitar by myself.

I think my life in general, like that of any human being, has highs and lows, has moments of great light and moments of great darkness.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

My little boy loves mambo, and my daughter, besides Justin Bieber, likes bachata - in our house, we're always singing.

I don't smoke, drink. I exercise, drink lots of water, eat well, don't sun. Me cuido.There's a lot of things that I want to do.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

I'm more relaxed. I know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they don't understand me, they don't understand me.

I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines. I love when people think I'm a new artist. It's a chance to start over.

People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection and they memorized my songs in Spanish.

I have never forgotten, and I can't imagine you have, and I've thought of it over the years. It was so good, when it was good, I kept thinking. How could it go wrong?

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.

Seek truth from facts.

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.

I love you when I forget about me.

To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.

Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.