If somebody for some reason for music or for movie becomes famous it's because they have something something special.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.

I'm doing a new musical on Broadway which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz ' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous then run down the street naked you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood then play play play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

I just want to make music I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces you know constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ and I just loved this instrument.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family your lover your wife and at a certain point with your children.

Music was your real passion this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

Over the last couple of years I've really worked toward balancing my life out more having a little bit more time with friends family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside so be it.

I'm healthy have a loving and adorable family great hunting dogs a gravity defying musical career and most importantly fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

Like family we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music and certainly no decent choral repertoire without the Catholic faith.

I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.

So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals and I've had one for 10 years now where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

I had to learn my faith and look after my family and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.