First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!

There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

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.

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.