I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.
Much like Jennifer Lopez or Ricky Martin who might have started with a hardcore Latin fan-base, I'll always remember what my foundation was.
I grew up in The Bronx. I mean, I was born and raised in New York City. And I started singing in Spanish because I was always just connected to my Latin roots.
We really wanted our characters to be very Latin-based because we've always been so proud of our roots.
Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
Romanian is a very beautiful, sensual, poetic language.
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
'Concierge' comes from the Latin for 'slave.'
I'm Latin - we start young, honey!
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
My father made me take three years of Latin in high school.
Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om.
Latin is an international language.
In my mind, if you went back to the Middle Ages, in Italy they'd be speaking Middle Age Italian. And at that point, it would obviously be indecipherable for us, but for the people of that time, it was just normal talking.
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
Reviewers have called my books 'novels in verse.' I think of them as written in prose, but I do use stanzas. Stanza means 'room' in Latin, and I wanted there to be 'room' - breathing opportunities to receive thoughts and have time to come out of them before starting again at the left margin.
There are two sides of me, the bachata/tropical Latin side and the English pop as well. They're both equally important, so I'll always make sure to keep both roots in my music.
I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.
