That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.
We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.
I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.
Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't.
I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.'
I didn't grow up watching TV or going to McDonald's or listening to mainstream music. Like, the casting agents are looking elsewhere for the cheerleader role.
At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who are there to just listen to the music and are genuine fans.
I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job.
I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process.
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.
I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.
I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.
So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.
As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.
One second I'll be listening to country, and then the next I'll be listening to rock and then R&B. It's ridiculous. I'm all over the place with my music.
Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.
I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that.
