LUIS FONSI

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

It's important to stay current and fresh.

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

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.

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

I am very optimistic, and I always think positive, but within reason and never getting too far ahead of the game.

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

I've learned and grown as a songwriter.

Each album always has its own sound.

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