I don't like begging money from producers.

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of it - is in putting them into prescribed forms or squeezing them into new forms that perfectly fit some emerging context. That’s part of the creative process, and we do it instinctively; we internalize it, like birds do. And it’s a joy to sing, like the birds do.

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.