I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.

Culture is taking the background you come from and either running with it or running from it.

The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.

I bring terror like Stephen King, A black Casanova, runnin niggaz over like Christine

There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

People go away and they don't come back.

My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.