I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.

All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don’t even know I’m working on. It’s a free lunch. A free dinner. I don’t know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.

It’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

Genres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

I’m an inventor.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

I’m a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don’t agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.

All art is quite useless.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It’s one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It’s a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.