It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.
[To beginning readers (ages 4 to 8) at a reading of "Noelle's Treasure Tale"]: If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.
I think it's important to have a happy parent.
Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.
A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.
Apparently Pope John Paul II and his boys - is that what you call them? - loved one of my songs and thought I was putting spiritual messages in my music. I'm not religious as such. Dogma and I don't get along.