People told me at the beginning: 'You're too Latin for the American, too American for the Latins.' But that's who I am, I'm a Cuban-American -- I'm not one thing or the other. I have an American head and a Cuban heart.

[The hardest thing about '90 Millas' was the concept of] combining the old and the new without losing the authenticity. The simple solution, of course, would h…

Freedom is not just words on paper. You have to exercise it in order for it to be alive and vibrant. I want my children to realilze that if you just sit by and…

Getting this caliber of musicians together [for '90 Millas' CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious a…

A colored is a very frightened-to-death Afro-American. A Negro is one that makes it in the system, and he wants to be white. A nigger, he's loud and boisterous…