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.

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

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.

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

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

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

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