I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.
I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.
So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.
I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.
When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love.
I think that everybody would love to play the bad girl, 'cause for most of us, it's a stretch.
I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could ever handle that world.
OK, I'm not what you'd call 'wild.' But I'm no prude, either - I love to party, and I play a mean game of pool.
I really respond to human scripts, scripts that are raw and real and risky. I love playing scary characters - not horror film scary, but vulnerable scary.
I play basketball for love and money, and they come in interchangeable order, depending on how things are going when you ask the question.
I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.
I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.
I've been in grocery stores, and if they're playing my music, I'll yell, 'Hey! I wrote that!' I've been next to cars and have done that!
