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" I am very optimistic, and I always think positive, but within reason and never getting too far ahead of the game. "

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" I definitely try to be myself and not try to imitate other performers. That's why I got my music degree. I wanted to be prepared and not be a 'product.' I want people to know that I'm not only a singer but a musician as well. I studied guitar, piano, and composition. I believe that it's just about being myself on and off stage. "

" Each album always has its own sound. "

" I never like to get ahead of myself. I'm not one of those people that do that. "

" My style has a lot to do with where I've been brought up. I've lived half my life in Puerto Rico and the other half in Florida, so I listen to music in English as well as Spanish. "

" I am 100% proud Puerto Rican but have lived two-thirds of my life in the United States. So, there will be some things I write in English, but my main way of conversing with my audience is in Spanish because, at the end of the day, I'm a Latino. "

" To say I was near our president, performing at the Nobel Peace Prize... I think that's an amazing thing. "

" Everybody has their cliques, and I was very shy. I'm still very shy. Music opened up doors. I would get to my choir class, and I was sort of one of the better kids... I could read music. That's when I realized how good El Coro de San Juan was. I felt, for once, like, hey, I can fit in. "

" It's crazy how the world evolves and the audience gives you an opportunity to really grow and live out your dreams. "

" My daughter is my number one fan. She has always been incredibly supportive, and she tells like it is and how it is. "

" I don't know what happens at radio as far as what is that X factor that makes a song click and have people get connected to it when it's in another language. "

" I wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production. "

" Part of our job as quote-unquote 'celebrities' is that we can gather people around things that are important. I think it should be a requisite - there should be a clause in the contract that you have to give back. "

" It's important to stay current and fresh. "

" My family is the engine of everything, and on a personal level, I feel peace, stability, and they give me force, which is reflected on my work, my recordings, and every time that I go out on tour. They are my base, my everything. "

" I treat every album as a new beginning, so I'm asking myself, 'What is pop music now? What are people consuming?' and I take these things into effect. "

" In my player, I have a Luis Miguel CD as well as a Brian McKnight CD. I'm known for my very romantic ballads as well as the fun, up-tempo pop songs. "

" Pushing the envelope, musically speaking, is what needs to be done to rise to the top. "

" I'm going through a beautiful stage in my life. I've learned about love, about life, about everything. "

" I've worked my butt off. That keeps my feet on the ground - I'm the same Luis Fonsi onstage and at home cooking an omelette in basketball shorts. "

" I've learned and grown as a songwriter. "

" Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist. "

" I block out a good amount of time - could be 6 or 8 months - and I just write. I do a lot of traveling, and I do a lot of co-writing with different writers just to start getting ideas out and kind of get a little bit of direction as far as where I'm going to go with the album. "

" When you're singing about love stories, which is most of my songs, it's good to have a lot of information and to have a different point of view. "

" It's crazy because I was 10 years old when 'Macarena' was all over the place, and I remember looking at it from a different point of view. I remember culturally how important that song was, even though people didn't really know what they were saying. It was more about the dance and the movement of it and the cultural side of it. "

" It's a beautiful thing to be involved with the Special Olympics. "

" When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album. "

" The genre I listen to the most is salsa, so people look at me and see this guy who's done mostly romantic ballads, but there's always been this other side. "

" Whenever I get a little chance to get to Orlando, I like to take a couple days' break with the family, just hang out, go clubbing around town. "

" I'm still the same guy who gets in front of the mic and just sings. "

" You kind of grow up and evolve in everything you do. "