Quotes by Ricky Martin

“The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every [writer] thinks, Im the journalist whos going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!”

“La vida loca, thats my life right now. Im going through an adrenaline rush that my career is giving me at the moment, and it is pretty intense.”

“Its tiny [his butt], what can I do?”

“Life, the album, came about because I believe that life is not one-dimensional,”

“The country has to get together and has to do something about this. It reminds me of what happened last year with the tsunami.”

“They will have to provide some documents to prove the relative that they are living with lives in the district. Or if they live in a shelter, that they live in that shelter. We want to educate all the students in our district.”

“Oh my God. When I was 12, I waited in line for four hours to get his autograph.”

“Its global. Its the world telling some artists theyre doing a good job, because you get an award if you sell, so thats the audience talking, so its very special.”

“Shes All I Ever Had”

“I met with great producers and composers, young people that wanted to give it all in their art, ... We were risking, we were daring to go places that we never went in music and because of it, I think theres a lot of spontaneity. We werent doing music following any rules. I wanted to start from zero, as if it were the first album that I was recording, so I could present a new sound.”

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, I love you and nothing will destroy you and youre not going to fall.

A lot of people say, Wow, youre a single father of twin boys, thats crazy! Two toddlers can get hectic, but I wouldnt change it for anything. Every day they teach me different things. The love is there. When you have a two-year-old saying every other hour, Papi, te amo. Papi, I love you, it cant get better.

Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.

Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, How are you doing? and Id say, Good, fine. Its show business, and thats what you have to show.