Top 35 Prince Royce Quotes

Most of my fans know I love video games. I say it in every interview, so they know. But one thing that I like doing is skateboarding, I like jet skiing, skydiving. It’s like a huge roller coaster ride. Like forty seconds of free-falling. That’s some of the stuff I love, daredevil stuff. I like horseback riding.

I like Miami in the winter: there’s no humidity, no bugs, no mosquitoes. You go out and wear your jacket, and you‘re all good!

I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.

I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin music.

I love hip-hop, R&B, techno and Latin.

I sang everything – R&B slow jams, Spanish slow jams, romantic reggaeton – and I really didn’t care which I got signed for.

Bachata is expensive to produce because of all of the instruments.

I like eating; I like going to restaurants and trying new things.

I think behind every great man there’s got to be a great woman, whether she‘s your wife, your girlfriend or not. I’m not gonna say that there’s not that special girl out there. But I’m in the music biz, and I’m focused on the music.

I love American food, but I also love Latin food.

My parents are Dominican. I would always go to the Dominican Republic, and I fell in love with Bachata, which comes from the Dominican Republic.

All my fans are my girlfriends.

Media always comments if I wear the same thing twice.

My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community.

When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I used the money I had earned while working there to make my first album. Without that job, maybe ‘Corazon Sin Cara’ would never had been made. It’s a very inspirational story.

I wouldn’t say I’m changing myself to find a new audience. It’s about growing, trying new things. There’s a whole other world out there that doesn’t know who Prince Royce is.

I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I’m always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.

Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.

In Spanish, for whatever reason, I lean more toward the high notes.

Girls love emotion.

I represent New York, I represent the Bronx, I represent the Dominican Republic. And I always have that in mind with everything that I do.

I just think Valentine’s Day is a day to really appreciate the person you love, no matter who it is, and to spend time with them. I don’t think it’s all about fancy presents or whatever. I think it’s about spending that quality time with that special person.

I’m very clumsy, so there’s been a lot of times I’ve tripped in front of girls I’m in love with or spilled food all over myself.

I just want to bring the people good music.

I grew up having two different perspectives – one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different – but I think that, to me, it’s one. I’m just as American as I feel Latin.

I’m excited to be launching D’Leon Records to support other young talent in their development. I have been very fortunate to have been able to break through and succeed in this tough industry, and this is one of my ways of giving back.

I remember when I was working at Sprint, I’d work on my birthday, New Year‘s Day, and even Christmas Eve. I’m just used to working on my birthday, so I’ll be celebrating it afterward.

The way I think or sing about something is very different if it is in Spanish or English.

My intent is never to leave Latin music. I definitely still want to release bachata albums.

My parents and grandparents listened to bacheta heavy, the true bachata from back in the day – Juan Luis Guerra, Anthony Santos. I liked the genre, but I remember thinking, ‘OK, enough of this.’ I would sing Usher’s ‘U Remind Me’ to the girls in school.

I always sang in English. It’s just that nobody heard me.

My Valentine’s playlist… you’re gonna have to play some Ginuwine. You’re gonna have to play some 112. You’re gonna have to play some Confession – Usher’s – back in the day. You know, a little bit of Prince Royce there, too.

There’s just something about being on stage and being with the people that, once that camera turns on, you find the strength to keep it cool, look good, act like you’re not cold, act like you ain’t nervous, act like you aren’t scared. I think that comes with confidence and practice.

I would definitely love to work with somebody like Jay Z or Rihanna.

At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.