My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.

There is a down side to everything if you don't understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music you could possibly end up getting yourself killed or hurting other people because of your carelessness.

If the U.S. succeeds in destroying the revolution, my status will be like that of most Cubans: I'll be up a creek without a paddle. It will be devastating for people worldwide who believe in justice.

Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.

Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

The US has attacked countries like Grenada, Panama, Libya... the list of victims of US terrorism is almost infinite. And the US government's participation in torture, whether in El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile... is well-documented and widely known.