J Balvin Quotes

I've been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by the MTV artists of the '80s and started putting on 'shows' in the apartment, most of them set to Michael Jackson's 'Bad' album. In my mind, there was a full lighting rig behind me... but it was just a couch.

I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

When I was 9 years old, I started performing around my hometown of San Antonio, Texas.

As a little girl, I remember thinking how great it was going to be, to be a musician when I grew up, how I was going make a jazz album, then a country album, then a rock album.

When I'm singing or on stage, I become complete all of a sudden. I'm whole. I don't think I've really had that in so many other things in my life.

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.

I always wanted to sing, as a child.

I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead.

I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing.

The first time I played in front of a live audience, I realised I wanted to be a musician. I was about four years old and had always liked music.

I was eight when I played St. Joseph, and I told my mom from that moment on I wanted to be an actor.

I don't know how to explain it, but ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to perform.

To just to get up on stage and sing every night at 9 or 10 years old was unbelievable to me. It wasn't that I was getting paid; it was that I was getting paid to do what I like to do.

I just wanted to perform all day, every day.

I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a calling. The performing part was the part that I wasn't sure about.

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.

I really loved being able to perform my songs and sing them myself.

I want to write songs, and I would like to play and sing them. I'm not a politician; I'm not a comedian. I hate coming up with bits to do between songs.

That's been my goal since I was a child and saw the Spice Girls on TV: I was like, I want to wear those fancy outfits and sing my heart out on a big stage.

I started performing in college, but I wasn't writing a lot.