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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 learned and grown as a songwriter. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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