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.

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.

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

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.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

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

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.