It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.

And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.

Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.

The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.

I have to trust what I do and then do it.

The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion.

In America, music is more tightly categorized.

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years.

I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.

When I am not on the stage, it is always very difficult for the public to find me! I am a private person who does not always want to be in the spotlight!

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.

The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China.

Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

I'm self-taught. Even today, on the sets, I probe the lightmen, the stunt artistes... they are from a period I've not seen; I can visualise it through them.

Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans' wars. If we don't assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we're in a very bad situation.

A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.

What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.

Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.

Women inspire me. Women in the airports, around the country in different cities, destinations around the world, inspire me with the way they express their individuality. I love watching women and discovering all the ways each person uses a color, pattern, a style, even a lipstick color. I'm a people watcher.

I pray for the day when the children of Syria and Palestine wake up to the sound of birds and not bombs.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected.

In L.A., like, there's a lot of, like, materialism, and, you know, people who think they're better than each other because of the clothes they wear or how they dress, and in Oakland, it's not like that.

Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.