Enrique - Quotes

In dieser Rubrik findet ihr Aussagen, die persönlich von Enrique in Interviews, TV-Shows oder auf Konzerten gegeben wurden. Damit die Quotes ihre Wirkung nicht verlieren, sind sie hier in Englisch abgedruckt.

• And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.

• When you find the perfect person you shouldn't feel any insecurity.

• 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.

• Yes, I have made a woman cry.

• At age 13 I fell in love with my teacher.

• I prefer love over sex.

• With the press, if it's a professional interview and I feel comfortable, I don't mind talking about my personal life.

• 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.

• 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.

• I really want to fall in love.

• My friends support me alot.

• But I'm never going to deny where I come from. I'm Latino, and that's obvious.

• We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.

• I just want my albums to do something different; I don't want the prior one to sound like the new one.

• 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.

• 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.

• The one thing about music is that there are no rules.

• I'm very romantic.

• Love is one of my main inspirations.

• 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.

• We're the same blood but the singing style is different.

• 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 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.

• I mean, when you do the same thing as your father... I always want it to be better than my father as a singer.

• The music promotion is what makes your face a pretty face.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The video for Addicted was an idea of mine, and it all came together with the genius direction of Peter Berg.

• I don't really like revealing everything about my private life.

• My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

• When I'm in love, I wake up happy.

• 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 mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.

• I'd never pay for sex.

• I always respect a woman.

• 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.

• 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.

• I'm a person that knows what he wants.

• Yes, and I hope that day I get married, it is forever.

• I can say that I got hooked into pop music, English-speaking pop music, the first time I went to camp.

• Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

• I mean, lyrics are crucial, but melody - it's so much about that.

• When there's love there's good sex.

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