"Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror."
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"Everything they do, from smiling to crying, feels like a blessing. Being a father feels amazing. This has been the most spiritual moment in my life."
"I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope."
"If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime."
"For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'"
"I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I've been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling."
"I love giving the golden shower. I've done it before in the shower. It's like so sexy, you know, the temperature of your body and the shower water is very different."
"I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist."
"I canceled a show once to be with someone that I loved."
"Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house."
"Anything can change in show business, you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other."
"The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every [writer] thinks, "I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk". I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!"
"I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper."
"I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so."
"I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!"
"I just want my children to be happy. I want my children to be healthy."
"Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family."
"One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people."
"My priorities are: I need to be good; I need to be well within for my children to be well within; and then the creative process flows, organically and smoothly. I'm not looking to experience what I went through in the 'Livin' La Vida Loca' days again."
"I used to look at gay men and think, 'I'm not like that, I don't want to be like that, that's not me.'"