'La Mancha' was a gift from me to me. I never thought for a minute it was going to be a hit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I liberated myself from my mum and dad after high school.
A plancha is just a hot flat surface. So if you think about it, anything is a plancha, like a saute pan or a griddle. A la plancha is the perfect way to cook for a crowd.
Some of the styles of dance in 'La La Land' I wish I had spent time on when I was a kid.
When I was a girl, there wasn't anything in Spanish in the movies until you saw it on DVD.
Mantovani was a great influence on me.
I love Los Angeles. I love when people make fun of it. I think, 'Good, don't come.' All the jokes about it feel out of date.
I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was.
If one wants to go on living, one must evolve. Before, when we composed, we would start by a series of music themes. Once created, we would hire writers and lyricists to make up the text and the story line. I was the first to do this backwards with 'Man of La Mancha.'
I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.
I'm well into sort of Santiago Calatrava and people like that.
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