The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

Music is timeless, so I want to give people shows they'll never forget so that I can do this forever.

It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.

And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

I am a biological female. I have two children. I've been married for 16 years. I've never been a man.

I'm loud and hard and in your face, and I tell the truth, and I think a lot of people fear the truth.

I co-produced 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber and worked on Labrinth's album, so I've been keeping busy.

The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience!

I'd like to be remembered as a good person, that gave as much as she could with what she had to give.

I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

To be a guy that disappeared from reggaeton for 10 years and come back, it can't be better than that.

Im in the public eye. I know Im not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

I must say, I don't think there's any more challenging music out there in jazz than what we're doing.

When clothes wear you, it's pretty evident. You've got to wear the clothes, not the other way around.

Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.

We live in a world where there is so much wealth. There shouldn't be a homeless person. That's crazy.

I love 'Enter the Dragon,' and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes.

I love my body because it's what I've been given. Being too thin is just as unhealthy as being obese.

As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell that I'd been crying over you.

And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.

All of us have times when we think we are ugly,but all.of us have a unique beauty others do not have.

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.

I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.

My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.

I'm addicted to women. Believe me, as Shaggy, after every concert, there's drawers that are dropping.

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

The only person who could make me stop singing is the one who made me sing: God, the beauty up there!

I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.

I will always play "Stand Back" anyway. And Prince will always he standing behind me every time I do.

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.

My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.

If the cap ain't on my Crest, if it's squeezed from the middle and not the bottom, there's a problem.

As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything's just swell.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music.

It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.

I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.

World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.

Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time.

I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.

The actual growth in a person's life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income.

Smile may be of different style,but that which adorns the face of a real person is only an honest ONE.

It would be Beyonce Knowles, because we are around the same age and I think she sings very, very well.

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