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

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

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

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.

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

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.