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.
We really wanted our characters to be very Latin-based because we've always been so proud of our roots.
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.
Romanian is a very beautiful, sensual, poetic language.
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.
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
'Concierge' comes from the Latin for 'slave.'
I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
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.
My father made me take three years of Latin in high school.
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.
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.
Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om.
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.
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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.
