I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.

I'm a big believer in education, period.

A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.

If there was any other place I would live, other than Miami, it would be California. It's beautiful. The weather is just gorgeous, I love being here, too.

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

I write in English first, and then I translate to Spanish. I've always felt more comfortable with the English side of things first.

So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me.

Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

The old are a regular subject for sympathy.

I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.

I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.

Things do not happen, we must make them happen

I'm as corny as Kansas in August.

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.

A man is as old as his arteries.