So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

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

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.

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

Everyone comes back. It makes no difference how far we wander, we always have our country, our land, in our souls and our minds.

What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.