Pitbull: "Just out here workin' hard and doin' what we do best: grind, hustle, and anything possible to create new opportunities."

Pitbull: "My motivational music is any music that helps me escape. There are certain records that take you to euphoria, when you're partying and havin' a good time, dancin' with a couple people."

Pitbull: "Don't be afraid to lose. Listen. And always invest in yourself."

Pitbull: "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."

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

Pitbull: "I started doing shows in places that I couldn't pronounce, didn't know existed, and I've seen people that didn't speak English or Spanish rapping to every lyric and singing to every hook. I said, 'This is the type of music that I want to do.'"

Pitbull: "I was taught in kindergarten: sharing is caring."

Pitbull: "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."

Pitbull: "Simplicity is the key to success."

Pitbull: "I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. Miami is special for that. It's a city where you don't know if it's more a part of the US, or of the Caribbean, or of Latin America, or of Europe."

Pitbull: "I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner."

Pitbull: "Humor is everything. Everything. Usually the negatives turned out to be the most positive for me. In the music industry, any other artist would have looked at the situation I was in and thought, "Oh man, this is not for me." I looked at it more like Darwin exploring the Galápagos Islands. You know - survival of the fittest."

Pitbull: "I've always had goals, always had visions, always had a plan, always been very strategic."

Pitbull: "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."

Pitbull: "Life is to live it, not to let it live you."

Pitbull: "As far as my single selections, over the years it's been a very essential part of my survival tactic, but I have no problem being able to jump on records with whoever people think is the rawest rapper in the game or number one or King or whatever they wanna name themselves, to be honest with you. It doesn't affect me, 'cause that's what I come from; I'm comfortable in that zone. But I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music."

Pitbull: "As far as the fans, I always say it because it's the truth: without them I'm absolutely nothing."

Pitbull: "You know, Steve Jobs came to the music industry and pitched them the idea and they kept shootin' him down and shootin' him down, and now he makes money off the whole music industry regardless. Which is a minor part of his empire, 'cause obviously it's gadgets that make him all of his money. But regardless, he has basically monopolized the music game."

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

Pitbull: "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."

Pitbull: "I'm sharp... What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing."

Pitbull: "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."

Pitbull: "I'm in the major league now."

Pitbull: "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."

Pitbull: "I look at this game from a different perspective."

Pitbull: "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."

Pitbull: "This is the truth: I'm into sales. I love deals. I'm definitely a sucker for steals."

Pitbull: "I think that the reason my records are able to live forever in the club is because I actually like to be in the club. I don't go to the club to do VIP or get bottles or nothin' - I go to the club, I enjoy the people, I see what the people are vibin' off, and I see what makes me go crazy in the club also, and that has a lot of influence on what I bring to the table when I'm thinking of making a big club record."

Pitbull: "Don't just give me an advance. I want a percentage."