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

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

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

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

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