Charo

My goal is to try new things, to make people forget their problems, make them laugh, and for them to talk about it the next day.

In 1988, Christmas, that was my last performance because I moved to Hawaii to raise my son.

My English is actually getting worse. We talk Spanish at home and switch to English only when we need it. Like when we go to the bank to get some money.

Around the world, I am known as a great musician. But in America, I am known as the cuchi-cuchi girl. That's okay because cuchi-cuchi has taken me all the way to the bank.

My neighbors are quiet. I am not. I don't know if they're dead or alive.

I love audiences. They are my oxygen. I only breathe with audience. When I'm alone, I am normally a miserable you-know-what.

I'm so stupid because I refuse to think that I'm getting older. I get up in the morning, and it's like, 'La, la, la, I'm so pretty.' I still mingle with a lot with young people. I even go to college campuses to talk to them because I know how they think. They don't think I'm boring, either. They think I'm cool, but I want them to think I'm hot!

If you believe in what you do, you are immortal. The day that you don't believe it, the day you're taking other people's opinion, you better go to Tijuana.

Listen, even if you go wild, I like class. Everybody in show business never should forget that there is a line, and that you should have class.

I am a person who has to move. I'm like a shark - if it doesn't move, it dies. I'm in good shape.

The family of my mother had a lot of money; the family of my father, nothing.

I haven't changed. My family and I live as we did in South Spain. I've had loud music, chickens, birds, and a bull in my backyard.