I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

I was taught in kindergarten: sharing is caring.

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.

Show the World where you're from, show the World we are one.

I always wanna be able to fight, I always wanna be able to go left when they tell me to go right, not because I'm being hard-headed, it's just me taking a creative stance. I have no problem with constructive criticism, but, at the same time, I have a problem with doin' the same thing that everybody's doin'. And that's the way I've found a way to survive in the music game.

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

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.