Thalia

“The bad experiences make you stronger and makes you focus on the next project.”

“I eat like seven men together.”

“I was born a woman, but I have a man's soul.”

“All I want to do now is to pamper myself and to be peppered with people who I love.”

“In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things, to be polite and basically to sacrifice ourselves on the way.”

“My idea is to bring out the inner child that my generation has inside, which does not go to sleep because of so much angst over the day-to-day routine. With so much going on, you start tuning out emotions and surprises.”

“Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey.”

“Hollywood movies are seen throughout the world.”

“I'm a chava, a young one.”

“I've always wanted to broaden my horizons.”

“To me, a big crossover was what happened to me years ago, like bringing my music in Spanish to Europe, or Asia. To me, that's a crossover because Spanish is not a language that everybody talks.”

“I was thrilled to play a role on 'Dora the Explorer,' a show that has touched the lives of many children around the world, including my own child. Dora is such an iconic and important Latina heroine, and I'm proud to now be a part of the show's ever-growing legacy.”

“Some of my fans want me to just dance and go crazy and wear flashy outfits.”

“I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.”

“My mother, Yolanda, was a little girl who never grew up, and sometimes we would laugh, and I would say things like, 'Okay, so now it looks like I am your mother and you are my daughter,' to which she would reply, 'Well, yes. Handle it and pamper me.'”

“I've learned that to survive, you need a positive state of mind.”

“My husband is American but Italian. Then I have the Mexicano side. I see both in my kids. My daughter is more Italian - she leans towards pizza - and my son leans more towards guacamole and puts lime in everything.”

“I used to rely too much on arrangements and production, things like dancers and explosions.”

“My little boy loves mambo, and my daughter, besides Justin Bieber, likes bachata - in our house, we're always singing.”

“I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.”