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.

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.

You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky.

We live in a time when to reject the idea of an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful government is to be viewed by that government as being anti-government.

If you cannot predict the betrayal from the ones that you love and trust the most, then you are living in a fool's paradise.

Ron Syriac, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I ever aspired to be.

Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.

We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.

The rich man and his daughter are soon parted.

I get freaked out by pills. Everyone I know is always like, "I'm just going to take a Valium or an Ambien on the plane." But I can't do any of that stuff - it scares me.

Turks continued their previous policy. They would not stop committing massive and most awful massacres that even Leng Timur would not dare to do.