Fashion is one thing, but style is another.
Bad Bunny
I don't want to be fake. I'm just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.
Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are - you feel me? I've had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.
You don't have the same mentality as you did five years ago - even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.
Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!
A good song never gets old.
The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers - keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.
Now I do whatever I want.
Simple goes a long way.
There's people that appreciate what I do; there's people that criticize it.
I only act from my heart.
What keeps me motivated is love and passion.
When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.
I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I'm an icon. The world decides all of that.
The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I'm still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.
I've always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we're young, we don't understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it's a blessing to have that support at home.
My mom is very religious - Catholic - and from a young age they brought me to the church.
I always liked different things, rare things.
Music has the power to inspire the world.
Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.
The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.
For years, decades, the system has taught us to stay quiet. They've made us believe that those who take to the streets to speak up are crazy, criminals, troublemakers.
Money does not change people, people change.
A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it's going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, 'Wow, that movie' - or that show or whatever - 'turned out really well.'
I made the track 'Si Tu Novio Te Deja Sola' before I met Balvin.
I'll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.
Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.
I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.
The fame isn't important to me. It's a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.
I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.
My style has always been my own, just like my flow and style.
When I get dressed, it's like freestyling.
In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.
I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I'm the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.
If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.
My mami and papi love my music. They're always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume - and turn it back down when it's over.
If I have the chance to say something, I will say it - but that doesn't obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.
Reggaeton is something else - it is part of pop culture. It is something very big that I don't believe will ever die.
It doesn't matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.
I can dance to just about anything.
Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They're giving us Latinos a chance to shine.
I am not someone who does a lot of exercise, so I attempt to maintain some sort of rhythm, and I think the jump rope is the funnest way. It's easy, you can do it in your room or anywhere.
If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.
Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.
I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.
When I was a little boy in school I had to dress up as a bunny and there's a picture of me with an annoyed face, and when I saw it, I thought I should name myself 'Bad Bunny.'
Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the 'perreos' of Plan B.
I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.
Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit 'MIA.' That's the best part of it.
You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.
