Everyone comes back. It makes no difference how far we wander, we always have our country, our land, in our souls and our minds..

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything..

They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel..

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being..

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America..

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day..

What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off..

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance..

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you..

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood..

So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York,….

I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drug….

I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe..

And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first….

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69..

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my famil….

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 ….

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang..

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin….

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened..

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law..