It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.

What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.