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

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 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'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.

There are many different forms of family and there is in fact NO 'the' family.The basic building block of any close relationship - and thus any family - is LOVE.

What others think of you is not as important as what you think of yourself.

Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

I reckon that there won't be an intervention in the near future, because Georgia's military adventure revealed the weakness of the Russian army.

Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.