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.

If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

I'm a huge sports fan.

Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!

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.

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.

I say it every day - I'm the luckiest man on earth

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

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 think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in itsvalue.

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists.

He who talks much cannot talk well.

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and how America can create interesting levels of contradiction.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.