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.

Look, Pitbull is a product.

Music to me is something I did as a hobby.

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.

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.

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.

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

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

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

You can't get much whiter than me.

Music is my hustle.

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

Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.

My kids can't eat awards.

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.

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.

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.

Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.