My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.

There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

I am here to give voice to the invisible.

If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.

I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.