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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Everybody lives their lives differently. They have a different perspective. They've been through different things in love. They've cried about different things. "

Different Perspective

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I've always said that inside of me there is a rocker that wants to come out, but I'm a romantic rocker. "

" I'm not a social singer. But if one can take a social message via the romantic, that's a strong statement. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" It doesn't matter where we're from, we all have to stick together and help each other out as performers and as human beings. "

" As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song. "

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

" The beautiful thing about it is that 'Despacito' is not really an English crossover. It was just another song that the world made a crossover. I didn't really push it; it just kinda went there. "

" My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I sang in a group for four years, and you just kind of get used to it. You don't really think about being by yourself. "