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

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

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

There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.

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

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

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.

In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible.

There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.

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

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

Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the radio stations played all types of music.

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

The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

I collected the 'Walking Dead' comics.

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

Not everybody goes to government to serve themselves and not their country.

I don't accept ideologies that are not a product of consensus. I don't have an ideology, but I do have a sense of what's right and what's wrong.

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

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

So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.

What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.

To fix Panama, you need more than charisma and records: you need a program of action.

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

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

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

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

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

Tortured characters are, I think, an actor's dream.

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

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

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.