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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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