Quotes By Enrique Iglesias

If you're buying an album because of the face on it, you're stupid.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

As an artist, I've been very fortunate.

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up.

If you come from Spain, you have to play football.

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

I always respect a woman.

If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I'd have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I'm happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

Love is one of my main inspirations.

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.

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

When I'm in love, I wake up happy.

The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.

I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.

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

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

I've worked a lot during the night. But I don't sleep in the day either.

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

I'm very romantic.

I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.

There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life.

I'm quite grounded.

I really want to fall in love.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.