I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.

You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.

Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths

I have the stardom glow.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Romantic relationships are the least interesting thing for me to write about. I'm 45, and that's not the most interesting thing in my life anymore.

The harder you work when nobody’s watching the less you bleed when it’s time to perform.

I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

It is not enough to say that something good, something beautiful is being born. We must help it become a reality - not a dream.

We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being. So classically what occurs is that one meets a teacher.

I'm most comfortable on stage.

Try saving when your salary is low. So after making more money, you will not be able to do this anywhere

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

Love is the best part of life