I Was A Straight-a Student,

You Want Your Fans To Like What You Do, Because It's Coming From Your Heart And Soul. You Write It, You Produce This Thing. It's Like Your Baby.

I Am Trying To Teach My Children To Feel A Responsibility For Their Fellow Human Beings And A Sense Of Connection With ... The World Around Them.

It's Important To Me That The Words That I Put Out There Into The Cosmos, Into The Universe, Be Empowering Or Somehow Positive For People That Hear Them, Or Maybe Be Cathartic If Someone Is Having A Relationship That's Having A Tough Time.

I Wrote Poetry, Which Got Me Into Lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John Pulled Me Into Pop. I Started Singing With A Band - Just For Fun - When I Was 17. And Pretty Soon, I Was Thinking I Could Sing Pop In English As Well As Spanish.

As An Entertainer, My Job Is To Help People Have Fun.