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

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.

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.

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

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

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

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