Enrique Iglesias sat down for an ASK:REPLY session with several fans via webcam, including Ally, who freaked out after Enrique remembered bringing her up on stage during a show. Enrique talked about favorite songs to perform and his favorite part about touring, as well as how the songwriting process inspired him to become a singer.
“My favorite song to perform on tour, it depends,” Enrique explained. “Some nights is ‘I Like It’, but do you know what song I love singing live? ‘Tired of Being Sorry’, although I don’t do it a lot in the U.S.”
As for the best part about hitting the road, the pop star responded, “My favorite part of being on tour is actually the tour hours before the show, because you’re nervous and your adrenaline is running. I like being on tour. I actually like it a lot.”
On what inspired him to be a singer, Enrique said, “It was actually the songwriting process. That’s what got me into it. When I was a kid, like 13, 14, 15, I wasn’t the best, I wasn’t a good student. Actually, I was a pretty bad student, not horrible, but definitely not great. I couldn’t focus when it came down to studying, but I realized I could sit down and write songs for hours, and I could focus on that, and I loved it, so it really was the songwriting. If it wasn’t for me being able to write my songs, I don’t think I’d be singing.”
Watch the interview via YouTube below.

Asked about the word that describes his music career, Enrique cited “blessed” and “lucky”, explaining, “I say that because not a lot of people get to do what they love in life, and make a living out of it. I say this all of the time in my interviews, because if you were to ask me when I first signed my first record contract, I was just a year older than you, and if you would have asked me back then when I was 17-18 that I was going to be able to do this for 15 years, I would have told you that you were absolutely nuts. I don’t know what I would do without my music. The people that I love the most, the closest people to me, I feel bad for them because I always put my music and my fans first. They understand but it’s truly the two things that make me the happiest. I feel very lucky that I’ve had such a, I don’t want to say long career to sound too, too old, but 15 years to me in the music world is an eternity. For a lot of people it would be, but hopefully I’ll be able to do it (longer).”