I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me.

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.

My world got very small, the way it always does when someone in your family is sick.

When your prayers aren’t answered immediately, sometimes God has a different—or better—plan.

My poetry is the highest valuable thing I have to make you smile...

How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

An actual artist, living right under her nose.

I am a bit in love with a new designer George Hobeika; I have worn him a couple of times on the carpet. Ralph Lauren is another one I really have fun with.

We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment.

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

It'll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But . . I'll get my revenge.