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

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

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

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

And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.

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.

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