Just because we're celebrities, we shouldn't get dissed. What people might be complaining about is that they think a lot of these [other] celebrities don't write their own books. But I've written every word in this book -- both in English and in Spanish. I love music and I love children and I love animals, and it's a great combo of all those things.

I saved her {pet bulldog Noelle's) life -- and she changed mine. [Noelle is the title character of The Magically Mysterious Adventures of Noelle the Bulldog --…

[My first children's book] is very subliminal, let's put it that way. It even has a bit of a metaphysical little message in there [about how] we're all somehow…

I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.

Do what you like. This is what I like and that's what I'm doing.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.