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They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

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.

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

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.

I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band.

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

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

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

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...

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.

It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.

Everyone has a black guy inside them. Mine is a Cuban sonero who is 80-something years old and sings better than I do. His name is Medoro Madera. Medoro has been recording since 1997.

I collected the 'Walking Dead' comics.

I'm planning to retire from salsa. I'm planning to do a farewell tour.

I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication, should be probed to its extremes, to see how effective it can actually become, which is one of the reasons why I became also...

I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all...

My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us.

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