I’m good. Really, really good. I’m happy, working hard.

I love LA. You know I have my two brothers here. I decided to stay two extra days and hang out with them and some friends for a little while.

You know it’s hard to put into words but he was a man feeling something. I didn’t know who he was and he was so vulnerable, not afraid. The melody was haunting. The way it grew. It started as a whisper and by the end he was screaming. It was perfect combination.

I got that from Barry Manilow. I’m serious. How corny is that but I’m a big Barry Manilow fan. Oh, Mandy! He is a master of crescendo.

No. I’m still not sure I do it right. I just feel it you know. You lock on naturally but I couldn’t sit here and break it down to you. It’s something you feel. You know when you’re in the pocket and you know when you’re out of the pocket. And when you’re out of the pocket it sounds and feels like a car crash.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Of course. We have to give them something to do. The first two minutes of a song you try to captivate them storywise and then it’s let loose. Otherwise it would be too depressing. Some of these songs are pretty heavy. They really are.

Things I hear. My friends have some very interesting stories about their relationships, the wackiest stories. Instead of laughing at them, since they’re real stories, I try to dissect the situation and try to figure out how this could have started. When did it start? Each song is like a little four and half minute movie where I try to take the listener to the heart of what happened. A lot of it is autobiographical. For the stuff that’s just too close to home I call Omar up and say, "Omar, come to New York. We have to talk." He flies down, picks up the guitar and we start jamming. Before you know it, it’s four o’clock in the morning and we’ve got 18 songs based on this one experience that I might be going through.

I would love to but it’s so hard because you don’t want to spread yourself thin. It is something that I would love to do. Eventually I’d like to put out enough records with one or two boleros on them so in a few years I’d just put out a compilation of all the boleros. Then I could tour behind that album as opposed to spreading myself thin.

Yeah, I’m in the middle of that.

People think I don’t care about salsa and that I’m this new jack who doesn’t care about form but I think salsa is fine where it is. I don’t make conscious decisions about "what if I do this or that." I have to feel it and I think that would be a sellout. At this point I think salsa is fine where it’s at and I think what’s so dreamy about salsa to the general public is that it’s so exotic. They may not understand the words but the rhythms are tribal and primitive and once you give the general market lyrics to think about they may start to overanalyze it instead of just feeling it. Let it be what it is.

Oh, yeah. But nothing is like music.

It’s so challenging, so challenging. It’s great to be allowed to be someone else without being called a schizophrenic. That’s cool, you know. I mean that is really cool.

Cold. It was freezing.

Yeah. It was great man. It gave me an opportunity to bond with Tina being that we are going to see each other a lot to promote the song. I had never met her before but working 12 hours in "not too normal" circumstances is a pretty interesting bonding experience.

Yeah, you’re right. You’re absolutely right. On every one of my films I felt that way. You think you’ll keep in contact with everyone forever. I love you. I’ll never forget you. Then the next project comes along. But the relationships that are on movie sets are incredible. Every time you see a person you worked with it just takes you back and you pick up with them where you left off. The relationships are pretty solid because you’ve work together under some pretty extreme circumstances.

I’m just a clown you know. I believe it. Really. I believe what I’m doing. I just think, "If I was this person, how would I act?" It’s understanding where he comes from and where he’s going.

That was fantastic. I fell in love with her, fell in love with her, absolutely fell in love with her.

In about a week and a half. I have a meeting with the director in a little while. He sent me the first print. I have it in my room. It was so incredible. You know Jennifer is a very special person. To have been able to work with her. I mean I could die now. I swear. You know, I’ve played Jennifer Lopez’s lover. I thought I had seen it all.

Absolutely. I was pleasantly surprised. I was so pleasantly surprised when I heard her voice. I am so proud of her. And her work ethic is like no other. She is such a trooper. We only had 48 hours to film this little mini-movie, two hours sleep per day. It would be like six o’clock in the morning after filming 18 hours straight and she’d have to go to change her hair. It was a high maintenance period piece. She was always, "No problem." It was an incredible bonding experience. I just adore her. I have a newfound respect for her and she has a friend in me for the rest of her life. Whatever she ever needs she can count on me.

No, not this time. The last time I came out I stopped by the Conga Room but this time I haven’t been able to. I’ve been working 13 or 14 hour days.

We have a production meeting where we are going to lay out the format of the show.   I don't doubt it. We have a couple of surprises.  I'd have to check Yomo's availability and his willingness to do it again.  Yomo and I have worked together quite a bit.  Next week is when we are going to sit down and figure out how to make the show a blowout, as interesting as possible and fun.  There is a huge possibility Yomo will be there.  It's all a matter of his availability.

No, that was a special occasion at the Garden because Robby was in the Capeman. He’s not a regular part of my band because I don’t have traps. I’ll have my whole band from New York and a couple of special guests.

MarcAnthonyOnline.com. I designed it with my cousin who runs the graphics department of my company.

Yeah. It’s been up as of yesterday. It has a lot of fun stuff. We’re still going to update a lot of stuff but it’s pretty much how I want it. Visually I love it. There are all kinds of shots that aren’t available anywhere else on every page. I have photo gallery of behind the scenes stuff like the making of the video with Jennifer. I have backstage at Madison Square Garden, my personal photos.

I check it my e-mail. I do. And, I respond.

Yeah, but I’m like this insomniac computer geek. So at night I don’t leave my house because I have this incredible computer. That’s what I do all night. It’s such a safe and extraordinary to keep in touch with people on a one-to-one basis. Some e-mail has really touched me. I’ve laughed. I’ve cried. I’ve been downright upset. Thank God 99.9% is positive.

Yes, I have done it once in Puerto Rico and it worked well. It would be really, really interesting to do. But I’m such a perfectionist that I’d have to be really satisfied with the product that the audience was getting. It would have to be as though they were there. It would have to special. It would have to be really, really special. I’m not going to do it just because it’s available. Yes, we have done it and it worked out well. I don’t doubt that in the future I will do it again. But, since I’m such a perfectionist I’ll have to be blown away by it. The day I feel that again is when I’d like to offer it.

Oh, I know. I know. They’re going bananas. It’s their year. And the Mets as well. I’m also a huge Mets fan. All those guys are my buddies. I hang out with them in the clubhouse. Man, the Yankees are on fire. And I think the Mets have won the last six, since Piazza joined them.

Thanks for your support. Keep writing. Send me e-mail. It may take me a while to get back to you because I answer all the e-mail myself but I will get back to you. And, check out my website. It’s like a little peek into my world. I think that the website says a lot about me and the person that I am.