[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous -- just like the people who drink it.

Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.

I left Cuba when I was two years old. They took away my country, they stole the most intimate thing a human being can have. How could I forget that Fidel Castr…

[I] grew up in this city [Miami], and my music is a blend of two cultures. In the beginning it was heavily Cuban. At this point it's [from] all over . . .

The coffee will be ready in a jitney.

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…