Enrique Iglesias Quotes

• "And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating."
• "And that's why for artists, no matter what your background is, no matter what religion, what nationality, or what class you come from, no matter if you're rich or poor, no matter what, that's where we all join together and where we're all similar."
• "At age 13 I fell in love with my teacher."
• "But I'm never going to deny where I come from. I'm Latino, and that's obvious."
• "But if it's a good song that touches people's hearts people will come see you in concert 10 years from now just to hear you sing that song."
• "For me, it all starts with if I can sing a song with a guitar and it still sounds good acoustically, then I'll stick it on the album."
• "I always respect a woman."
• "I can say that I got hooked into pop music, English-speaking pop music, the first time I went to camp."
• "I don't actually think about what kind of an album I'm going to make when I go into the studio, because that kind of limits me."
• "I don't really like revealing everything about my private life."
• "I don't think I would be a good producer, but I would like to compose for other singers, give them ideas for other projects, the problem is that I don't compose often and I don't have songs to give to others."
• "I had a normal childhood. There were women, but it wasn't like Hefner's Playboy Mansion. If it was, I'd still be living at home!"
• "I just want my albums to do something different; I don't want the prior one to sound like the new one."
• "I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because I've been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and '80s pop music was my biggest influence."
• "I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music."
• "I mean, lyrics are crucial, but melody - it's so much about that."
• "I mean, when you do the same thing as your father... I always want it to be better than my father as a singer."
• "I mean, you need a good production, but the essence, what makes a song timeless, is the melody, the lyric, and of course the production."
• "I prefer love over sex."
• "I really want to fall in love."
• "I sang in English because I grew up in the States. I grew up with American influence, I grew up with American music, I went to American schools, I went to college here in the States."
• "I say that when you sing in English, it's easier and it does open a lot more markets, but there's exceptions, and there are artists out there that have done it in Portuguese, Spanish, and French."
• "I started singing with poor musicians but they were very talented."
• "I used to travel to so many different countries with my Spanish albums, and some of them would listen to my music and some of them wouldn't, just because it was in Spanish."
• "I was happier before, when I lead a normal life."
• "I'd just finished my album and Robert Rodriguez's people called me and asked if I want to do this movie. It was a short role, a small role in Once Upon A Time In Mexico."
• "I'd never pay for sex."
• "I'm a good person, but with many defects."
• "I'm a person that knows what he wants."
• "I'm so much into the melody."
• "I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is."
• "I'm very romantic."
• "I've gone over a million in a half miles flying."
• "If permanent happiness comes with someone, I'd leave everything."
• "In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didn't really know who my father was."
• "It surprises me what the girls are capable of doing for me."
• "Love is one of my main inspirations."
• "My first record contract was for three records in Spanish, and right when that was over, that was a perfect time for me to release an English album, and that's when it all happened."
• "My friends support me alot."
• "My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness."
• "Not that I don't like the other songs, but I love ballads, and I think it's always a risk-taker when you come up with a ballad."
• "Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world."
• "The music promotion is what makes your face a pretty face."
• "The one thing about music is that there are no rules."
• "The video for Addicted was an idea of mine, and it all came together with the genius direction of Peter Berg."
• "The weirdest show I ever played was in Russia, in the Kremlin. That was weird, because I think the Kremlin seats 6,000 people, and you couldn't even bring a production. You couldn't even touch anything."
• "We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world."
• "We're the same blood but the singing style is different."
• "When I'm in love, I wake up happy."
• "When there's love there's good sex."
• "When you find the perfect person you shouldn't feel any insecurity."
• "With the press, if it's a professional interview and I feel comfortable, I don't mind talking about my personal life."
• "Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change."
• "Yes, and I hope that day I get married, it is forever."
• "Yes, I have made a woman cry."
• "You should do whatever language you feel is the perfect language for you to sing in and then try to strive to do the best."
• "I had a normal childhood. There were women, but it wasn't like Hefner's Playboy Mansion. If it was, I'd still be living at home!"
• "My grandfather's 86 and he's having a baby. Man, I hope when I'm 86 I can have babies."
• "I don't consider myself a sex symbol."
• "My relationships have been well publicised in the past but I am just a normal guy, really."