Cruz Quotes

I was in third grade when Rapper`s Delight changed my life. But, when I came home, my mother would be listening to Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Diana Ross. I want to include all those elements in my music.

(On working with Penelope Cruz in "Woman On Top"): "I can`t say enough nice things about her. She is amazing. You would think, looking at her, "Well, she can`t be smart, funny, and a good actress," but she is all these things and more. She`s great at imitations, dancing, partying. And she`s a great person, too. She doesn`t do it for show. One day when we were shooting in Pellerinho, a small town in Bahia, Brazil, we`re hanging out on a street corner and there`s this little boy who`s dirty, dressed in rags, who is begging. She takes him by the hand and walks him to a sandwich shop and buys him two roast beef sandwiches. There`s no one around, writing an article about her, this is just Penelope being herself."

When I got to first, I felt the ball in my chest. There must have been some kind of contact with Cruz`s glove, then I saw the ball rolling away.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn`t have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

I love the Italian culture, it`s a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes...I just love it! Sometimes I think I`m an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman`s body.