If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.
— Pitbull
Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.
As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.
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.
I'm definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.
This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.
My kids can't eat awards.
Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.
I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.
I like to keep my money at the end of the day.
I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.
Music to me is something I did as a hobby.
I make music with no boundaries.
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.
I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.
I work hard. But I play hard, too.
Look, Pitbull is a product.
In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.
I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.
You can't get much whiter than me.
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.
I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.
My owner is life and that's what I fight for.
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 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.
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.
When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.
I think of fans like a barbershop. I want that debate.
I'm here to entertain.
I'm in the major league now.
Music is my hustle.
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 look at this game from a different perspective.
