“'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I fel...” — Luis Fonsi Quote

'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was really catchy and powerful but at the same time very simple.

It's always morning for me until 4 in the afternoon.

You kind of grow up and evolve in everything you do.

I talk bilingual.

I like to listen to other songs to get a different point of view and to learn.

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

Any song has to be catchy. People think class films are tough and mass films come easy. But that's not true.

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.