Prince Royce Quotes

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

I just love dialects; they're really fun.

My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

Being able to incorporate my language into songs is really cool. It's really cool to see that people are susceptible to it. It helps with writing a lot to turn off one language and then go to another.

Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didn't even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

I have a funny accent in every language.

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

I go from English to Spanish, and I feel I have some cool songs.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

I want my words to survive translation.

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

My first language is French. I just love words so much, and in French it feels like I can say whatever I want however I want.

Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.

Translation is at best an echo.

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.

For the benefit of those who are not bilingual, I will now continue in English.

Those who have reflected on the powerful influence of language on thought will perceive in how different a manner people who speak in different languages are apt to think.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.