There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.

They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

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.

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

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

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.