Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

I have to trust what I do and then do it.

The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me

The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do

In America, music is more tightly categorized

Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight

When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.

I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it.

We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.

There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.

The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession.

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

There are two types of grandmothers - the ones who feel relieved when they hear the first 'Let's go home' and the ones who feel hurt. The latter are definitely in the minority.

If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.

Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.