Lauren Velez Quotes

I love Celia Cruz - she was also a huge part of my childhood. She's an iconic woman.

I would like to do a music person's story, a bio. I've wanted to do Aaliyah forever. But I don't want it to always be like, 'I'm singing again in a movie.'

I was such a fan of Cyndi Lauper and her whole 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' thing.

Women's music is underrepresented.

I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.

My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson.

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.

Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don't want that! Never! Maybe she's the American Gloria Trevi!

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.

Even to this day, when someone says something derogatory about Boy George, it still upsets and offends me. Part of me will always be quite attached to him.

If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.

We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.

What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

Everyone loves Beyonce. If you don't love Beyonce, we can't talk.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

Everyone has a black guy inside them. Mine is a Cuban sonero who is 80-something years old and sings better than I do. His name is Medoro Madera. Medoro has been recording since 1997.

I would think Beyonce will be the greatest female artist of all time.

We didn't want to be the girlfriends of the Beatles. We wanted to be the Beatles.

Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.

I just felt drawn towards the kind of music that really needed a strong female presence female writers, female producers, female figures and that just kind of unfolded on its own.

I've always been very respected as a female singer in metal, or in general as a female singer.

Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.