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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist. "

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

" Cancer is tough. Even saying it, it's a tough word to say. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The transition to the United States was very interesting. I learned the language. I kind of got into the R&B. I'm a huge fan of the '80s, Journey and all that fun stuff. But when I moved to Orlando, it was more like Boyz II Men. "

" 'Despacito' started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this track came after I wrote the lyrics, which I wrote as if I was writing a ballad. "

" Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together. "

" I won't lie, I didn't know there was a concert. I've always known about the Nobel Peace Prize and the different prizes given out for science and this and that, but I didn't know there was a concert the day after. When they said, 'You're going to perform in Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize concert,' I was like, 'All right, I'm there.' "

" As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Ricky Martin just kind of opened a big door, but it's always been around. Latin artists have always been there, but some of them were never doing it in the U.S. "

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

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

" It's always morning for me until 4 in the afternoon. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I like to listen to other songs to get a different point of view and to learn. "

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

" I've done songs in other languages. I know how hard it is. "

" 'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was really catchy and powerful but at the same time very simple. "