Top 50 Enrique Iglesias Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.”

— Enrique Iglesias

2. “Realistically, English is a universal language; it’s the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.”

— Enrique Iglesias

3. “Would you dance, if I asked you to dance? Would you run, and never look back? Would you cry, if you saw me crying? And would you save my soul tonight?”

— Enrique Iglesias

4. “One person cannot change the world. But you can become the world for someone. A warm, bright, and peaceful world. If everyone can be such a world to one person, one will become ten people, and then a hundred. The world will be full of happy people then.”

— Enrique Iglesias

5. “It was good, it was bad. But it was real, and that’s all you have.”

— Enrique Iglesias

6. “I’m a good person, but with many defects.”

— Enrique Iglesias

7. “If permanent happiness comes with someone, Id leave everything.”

— Enrique Iglesias

8. “I go from English to Spanish, and I feel I have some cool songs.”

— Enrique Iglesias

9. “The one thing about music is that there are no rules.”

— Enrique Iglesias

10. “I don’t sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I’m a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don’t ever want to wake up.”

— Enrique Iglesias

11. “I want to thank my fans for their support and love all these years, thank you Miami. Thank you Latin America. Thank you Mexico. Thank you world !”

— Enrique Iglesias

12. “My best personality trait that I think I’m very approachable. And my worst is that I can be moody.”

— Enrique Iglesias

13. “I care about politics just like any other citizen. I’m against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.”

— Enrique Iglesias

14. “I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it’s music, take it seriously.”

— Enrique Iglesias

15. “I don’t like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.”

— Enrique Iglesias

16. “Love is one of my main inspirations.”

— Enrique Iglesias

17. “I always respect a woman.”

— Enrique Iglesias

18. “When I’m in love, I wake up happy.”

— Enrique Iglesias

19. “The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn’t stay away from it any longer.”

— Enrique Iglesias

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20. “I wouldn’t change anything. I’ve made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I’ve learned.”

— Enrique Iglesias

21. “I’m not a heartthrob. I hate that word.”

— Enrique Iglesias

22. “There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, ‘that’s for complaining.’ Not many people can do what they really like in life.”

— Enrique Iglesias

23. “Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.”

— Enrique Iglesias

24. “My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.”

— Enrique Iglesias

25. “I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.”

— Enrique Iglesias

26. “My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.”

— Enrique Iglesias

27. “I am really passionate about sports in general – especially water sports.”

— Enrique Iglesias

28. “Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that’s always going to change, and love is never going to change.”

— Enrique Iglesias

29. “I don’t care what people say. My music’s, my music.”

— Enrique Iglesias

30. “First of all, I’m not a heartthrob. If you saw me in high school, you wouldn’t say I’m a heartthrob. Having a hit song, the minute you’re famous, you’re a heartthrob. I know you don’t believe me, but I honestly don’t consider myself a heartthrob.”

— Enrique Iglesias

31. “My grandfather’s 86 and he’s having a baby. Man, I hope when I’m 86 I can have babies.”

— Enrique Iglesias

32. “I really want to fall in love.”

— Enrique Iglesias

33. “I had a normal childhood. There were women, but it wasn’t like Hefner’s Playboy Mansion. If it was, I’d still be living at home!”

— Enrique Iglesias

34. “The one thing I’ve learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don’t get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they’re going to have to ride. That’s the hard work.”

— Enrique Iglesias

35. “If you’re buying an album because of the face on it, you’re stupid.”

— Enrique Iglesias

36. “Yes, I have made a woman cry.”

— Enrique Iglesias

37. “I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.”

— Enrique Iglesias

38. “If you come from Spain, you have to play football.”

— Enrique Iglesias

39. “The way I look at it, I’d rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.”

— Enrique Iglesias

40. “It surprises me what the girls are capable of doing for me.”

— Enrique Iglesias

41. “I’m so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.”

— Enrique Iglesias

42. “Really, the F word in a song – it should be the least of the worries of parents these days.”

— Enrique Iglesias

43. “There hasn’t been one moment in my career where I felt I didn’t have any control over the creative aspects of my records.”

— Enrique Iglesias

44. “In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my father was.”

— Enrique Iglesias

45. “We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that’s what joins musicians together around the world.”

— Enrique Iglesias

46. “The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It’s always been the same, but it’s far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.”

— Enrique Iglesias

47. “And people coming up asking for autographs, there’s only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I’m eating.”

— Enrique Iglesias

48. “If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I’d have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I’m happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.”

— Enrique Iglesias

49. “I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.”

— Enrique Iglesias

50. “My relationships have been well publicised in the past but I am just a normal guy, really.”

— Enrique Iglesias