How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

Sometimes I don’t use the words ‚will‘ and ‚want‘ in the right way. The German word ‚will‘ is the English word ‚want,‘ so that’s a little bit of the problem.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – ‚Lana Del Rey‘ reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

All the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language; Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.

I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.

I don’t speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

In oratory the will must predominate.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.