Luis Fonsi

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I talk bilingual.”

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

“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.'”

“'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was really catchy and powerful but at the same time very simple.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's important to stay current and fresh.”