If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.

I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.

I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.