I love Gershwin. I love musicals. — Gloria Estefan

My inspirations include the Beatles–love, love, love them–Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder. — Gloria Estefan

I’m a writer and this is what I love to do. — Gloria Estefan

Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment. — Gloria Estefan

My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans. — Gloria Estefan

It’s a universal story, it’s an immigrant story, and it’s a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you’re determined and persevere, you’re going to succeed. — Gloria Estefan

When you sing in English and Spanish, it’s two completely different forms of expression and… even the people who don’t speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish. — Gloria Estefan

Having felt people’s love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it’s our responsibility to help one another. — Gloria Estefan

I don’t want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy. — Gloria Estefan

There’s some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn’t make a difference. They could be anywhere. — Gloria Estefan

I was a straight–A student, baby! — Gloria Estefan

I have a twenty–month–old baby, a sixteen–year–old boy–same maturity level. — Gloria Estefan

My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they’d bring me cartons of mango baby food–the only kind I’d eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she’d slip a Cuban record. — Gloria Estefan

You want your fans to like what you do, because it’s coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It’s like your baby. — Gloria Estefan

I’m happy and I have a great life. — Gloria Estefan

In this life, I’m always going to choose the positive. — Gloria Estefan

I only used my whole life one perfume, and it’s Cartier’s Les Must. — Gloria Estefan

Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do. — Gloria Estefan

I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant. — Gloria Estefan

I’ve bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life. — Gloria Estefan

Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life. — Gloria Estefan

You know, it’s funny how songs continue to grow and evolve and become a new and deeper reflection of your life. — Gloria Estefan

I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness. — Gloria Estefan

For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember––regardless––is ‘Conga’ . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me. — Gloria Estefan

We kiss and hug our kids a lot! And even now when our son lives 3,000 miles away, we talk every day, sometimes several times. — Gloria Estefan

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all. — Gloria Estefan

The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis––’Who’s Sorry Now?’] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006]. — Gloria Estefan

I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life. — Gloria Estefan

If there’s ever been a dark moment in my life… well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape. — Gloria Estefan

What’s the point if you make something that’s not you, and you’re successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life. — Gloria Estefan

The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself. — Gloria Estefan

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father. — Gloria Estefan

The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly. — Gloria Estefan

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child. — Gloria Estefan

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. — Gloria Estefan

I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist. — Gloria Estefan

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do. — Gloria Estefan

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children. — Gloria Estefan

It’s crucial with today’s challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents. — Gloria Estefan

I have a very open line of communication with both my children. — Gloria Estefan

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with … the world around them. — Gloria Estefan

I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly . . . he could have gone a long time ago. — Gloria Estefan

The ’70s were a hot time. You know? I was, like, the most calm of all my friends. — Gloria Estefan

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time. — Gloria Estefan

I stare to memorize your face, to kiss you in my mind, love you all the time. — Gloria Estefan

This blend of musicians on ’90 Millas’ is historically significant on a number of levels. This is the first and quite possibly the last time that all of these legendary artists will play together on one CD. — Gloria Estefan

If you’re trying to do what’s popular now, you’re way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it’s moved on. — Gloria Estefan