I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.
The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, 'Please do it faster.'
I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don't have anything against him personally. But he's not the kind of fighter I like watching.
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.
You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.
You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.
With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in, and occasionally a bit of radio play.
Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.
I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.
I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.
Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.
The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics.
I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.
A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldn't have happened without the social changes.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Some men are afraid of women who challenge them and demand respect and answers. That's who I am and will always be.
I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner.
