Quotes from Pitbull

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

My kids can't eat awards.

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

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.

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.

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

I look at this game from a different perspective.

Everything is humble and positive energy.

Now look at the crowd. We've got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos—and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!

Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that.

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

Life is to live it, not to let it live you.

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

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

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.

Look, Pitbull is a product.

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

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

There's no success without failure and no winning without losing.

Patience, passion and perseverance equals success.

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

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

I work hard. But I play hard, too.

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