Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Solitude is independence.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

I just want to keep writing music.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

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