Pitbull

“Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.”

“I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.”

“When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.”

“As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.”

“With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.”

“My kids can't eat awards.”

“I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.”

“I work hard. But I play hard, too.”

“My owner is life and that's what I fight for.”

“I'm in the major league now.”

“I'm here to entertain.”

“I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.”

“If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.”

“I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.”

“I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.”

“I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.”

“I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.”

“I look at this game from a different perspective.”

“Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.”

“In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.”