People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection and they memorized my songs in Spanish.

Everybody has their own story, everybody has their own journey.

Ive always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.

I don't consider myself a skilled enough instrumentalist to be able to create the atmosphere that I want with just my guitar by myself.

I think my life in general, like that of any human being, has highs and lows, has moments of great light and moments of great darkness.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

My little boy loves mambo, and my daughter, besides Justin Bieber, likes bachata - in our house, we're always singing.

I don't smoke, drink. I exercise, drink lots of water, eat well, don't sun. Me cuido.There's a lot of things that I want to do.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

I'm more relaxed. I know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they don't understand me, they don't understand me.

I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines. I love when people think I'm a new artist. It's a chance to start over.

To be a great success, persistently plan and have a prospective and purpose.

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

I've got friends in the different teams I've played for, but family is the most important thing to me. That will always be the case.

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.

We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall.

Not everyone has something to say. This will not stop them from saying it.

A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.

Focus on the solution, not the problem