Balvin: "My medium is music, but my goal is to motivate people to dream."

Balvin: "I invite you to get out of the box, be yourself. If you have blue hair, pink, yellow; if you have a broken tooth; if you have other sexual preferences... be yourself. Fight for your happiness always."

Balvin: "I'm just a regular guy trying to make my dream come true like everybody else."

Balvin: "As long as I keep it real, I learn something from everyone. And when you view yourself as a student and not as somebody who's bigger, there is still learning that can be done every day, and that keeps you open-minded and more ready to learn about life and love."

Balvin: "I obviously work really hard. But I also have the capacity to dream really big and have the discipline to materialize those dreams."

Balvin: "When I would go to the barrio, people saw me as a rich person, but when I'm around rich people, they see me as someone from the ghetto. It's all perceptions. I like moving between worlds. I feel equally comfortable in both."

Balvin: "As Latinos, we are many, and our geography is gigantic."

Balvin: "Even though you don't understand what I'm saying, you are going to really feel it. The same thing happened to me when I used to listen to English music. I didn't even understand one word. You know? But it just makes me feel great."

Balvin: "We want to change to point of view about Latinos in the world and Colombians. Forget about the bad past."

Balvin: "I want to invite the mainstream into my world and to my sound and to what I'm doing. And I want mainstream artists to respect me and accept Latino artists as equals without us having to sing in English. I want them to know that I can compete globally, with whomever, in Spanish."

Balvin: "I believe that we are a result of our past."

Balvin: "When you see a movie, they always put the Latino on the bad side or in a tacky way. It's not like that. Latinos are shining like a diamond."

Balvin: "I love Bad Bunny. He's changing the game. I think he's doing something very important with his success."

Balvin: "Who would have thought that somebody Latino was going to be singing with Beyonce at Coachella? Years ago? Nobody. But I did believe in me. So, that's what I want to do: keep inspiring people as much as possible."

Balvin: "For 10 years, I was my own label, my own promoter, my own PR. We borrowed money to print our CDs."

Balvin: "I see myself like what Drake did in the game. I came with melodies and different lyrics, from a different place - reggaeton is from Puerto Rico; Drake is from Canada."

Balvin: "I don't have to work with superstars - I want to work with cool artists that make super music."