I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.

I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.

I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.

Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.

It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.

I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.

My life is nothing like my videos. I'm definitely not walking around with lots of hot women, as I am in my videos.

I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.

Be a man of value and the universe will pay you for the value you add to it.

There is no such a thing as living fully without following one's true passion in life.

The Bible isn't a choose your own adventure book where everyone can just make up their own meaning.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.

Haitians don't like to say they are hungry because we are proud.

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

Publications such as Forbes and Fortune continually rank Georgia cities as among the best places to live, work and run a business.

In order to overcome fear, your dream must become bigger than fear.