My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.
I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.
I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.
My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
Music is my Salvation. The Dance Floor is my Sanctuary. The Ocean is my Therapist & L.A. is my Personal Playground.
Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.
I've had the exact same brown hair all my life, and my whole life, people have been telling me to change my hair.
I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.
I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.
For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there - my wife, my parents and my musical family.
I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.
I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.
My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.
My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.
I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.
My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
