Gloria Estefan

I have a very open line of communication with both my children. ”

Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else. ”

My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple's double - she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s in the kitchen for my grandmother. ”

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children. ”

Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force. ”

Apparently Pope John Paul II and his boys - is that what you call them? - loved one of my songs and thought I was putting spiritual messages in my music. I'm not religious as such. Dogma and I don't get along. ”

As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief. ”

I gotta tell you, my nature is not to be the center of attention. ”

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation. ”

I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead. ”