I may have my diva moments, but I don't want to get to where I'm considered untouchable.

I come from the ghetto in Brazil, where we don't have a lot of career opportunities, so I'm sure my family and people who live there never imagined that one day I'd become a singer and be able to perform at an event like the Olympics.

An artist has to know who she is and to be consistent in building her career.

Singing in a different language is a challenge, but 'Will I See You' was so much fun to create.

My father grew up with no money. He was raised in one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the U.S. My mother helped him sew labels into his ties. My life has been very comfortable, sure, but they instilled into us the importance of the work ethic.

I'm a fighting man, a fighting man with generations of fighting men before me in my family. That's all we do: we fight.

The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.

I'd been doing shows, but I slowed down because I had a daughter and got to spend some time having more of a family life.