Pitbull

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

I'm in the major league now.

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

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

I'm here to entertain.

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

My kids can't eat awards.

I think of fans like a barbershop. I want that debate.

Look, Pitbull is a product.

I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.

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

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.

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

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 make music with no boundaries.

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

Music to me is something I did as a hobby.

Music is my hustle.

One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.

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

I look at this game from a different perspective.

The people in Cuba, they know what I stand for, and there's a lot of people in Cuba that stand for the same. But they can't say it.

It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.

I'm definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.

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.