Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, ‘Wow, you’re still friends with your ex, man? Really? That’s weird.’ I don’t play that.
First you date the songs, and then you get engaged and then you marry them. They have to stand the test of time, because they are going to be yours for the next 20, 30, 40 years. So you had better choose right.
Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
My family, my fans and yes, romance is always there in one way or another. Life is full of these emotions and I have always found pleasure in incorporating them into my music.
I say it every day – I’m the luckiest man on earth.
I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that’s all I want to do.
I’m a huge sports fan.
I have always said that your work stays with you for a long time, and I try to get involved in projects where I truly believe if I had to do them again, I would the same way.
I come from a pop background, but I’m also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I’m faking it.
I think in general I’ve never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.
It’s still hard for me to understand, what is to me, the morbid fascination with celebrity. I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that’s all I want to do. I understand, you know, the interest but I really don’t understand the fascination with it.
Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!
Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.
My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.
I’m not a traditional sonero, at least not in the way they want me to be, I’m an interpreter, and I reach people in a different level.
I’m not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I’m not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.
What you see is what you get. My God, I don’t have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.
What Jennifer Lopez puts out, it’s not Latin music.