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I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?

Sometimes when I have an idea, and I say, 'Okay, let's - it will be great, maybe, if I sing in English, a couple of songs.' Now, the record company and everybody's like, 'No way, you have to sing in Spanish.' And that's, you know, really good for me.

We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.

When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.