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

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

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

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

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

" Each album always has its own sound. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" At no time was I trying to write a crossover record. "

" 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 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. "

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I love and respect theatre, so I am truly honored to have the opportunity to take my voice to the Broadway stage. "

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

" 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

" 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 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 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. "

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

" 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 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 talk bilingual. "

" 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. "

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