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.

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

So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74.

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.

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

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

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