Everyone comes back. It makes no difference how far we wander, we always have our country, our land, in our souls and our minds.

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

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

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

There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.

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.