Since I've been in this industry, it's been a constant fight; "Oh, he's white, he's Cuban." "He's tryin' to do hip-hop and he's too Spanish, he's too English."You fight all these stereotypes through all these boundaries, and you find a way to tap-dance through all these different genres and cultures through music - that's what Rebelution is.

I'm just here to open up doors for all these other cats out here that are trying to do the same thing really.

I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

I was taught in kindergarten: sharing is caring.

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

There's always something going on, and people need that 45-minute-to-an-hour-and-15-minute break, where they just escape and not worry about bills, health care and God knows what. That, to me, is when you're making great music: when people can just forget about what's going on.

I'm so passionate about making good music.