I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.

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

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

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

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

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

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.