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People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.
Making a record and being a touring artist is about cooperation between spirit, craft, emotion, and focus.
Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.
'Don Quijote' by Cervantes. I read the original Spanish version when I was in high school. Such a classic!
I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.
If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.
Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.
I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.
I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.
I definitely think it's cool being Puerto Rican and Dominican, but I feel it has no influence on my music.
It's very difficult to be fully accepting of who you are when you've got that superficial world out there.
It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.
I'm O.K. having a comfortable life. I don't have to live in a mansion and drive Aston Martins or Ferraris.
When you have a live performance, you're going to be pitchy here and there, unless you have perfect pitch.
The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.
It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.
That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.
Regrets, I've had a few but then again too few to mention. And more, much more than this, I did it my way.
We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.
The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.
It's a funny thing, when you talk to God, you're religious, but when he talks to you, you're a psychopath.
I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth
I feel like we'll forever live in a country that's divided... Divided by race... Divided by love and hate.
I feel like music can be therapeutic for all of us - not just music lovers but the artists that create it.
That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.
Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.
Director Baz Luhrmann flew me to New York to read for 'Moulin Rouge!' Maybe I was a little blase about it.
The image, like the voice, came in stages. I never sat down with anyone and said, 'Let's design an image.'
La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, 'I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses.'
Even my mom is calling me Shaggy now, which is weird, because Shaggy is more like a character that I play.
I don't want to be home just taking medicine and waiting to die, you know? That's not something I'm about.
What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.
That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.
Big Bang is what made me who I am today. With them, I laugh the most, and I feel like I can achieve things
Remember you are different than anyone else for a reason. A good reason. Find that reason and run with it.
When you are gestating, you feel full of life, you feel full of joy, you feel full of fantasy, of stories.
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman.
You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.
Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.
I wrote a book with my mom and my sister for fun. I had no idea it would be a 'New York Times' bestseller.
Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
I've learned lately that no one is going to hand me a permission slip and tell me to take time out for me.
It's time for Americans to stop worrying about Kim Kardashian and figure out how we're gonna save our kids.
I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.
The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist
I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked.
Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but its good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.