I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.

Divine force lies within you. You must awake the power.

Fear usually looks like anger.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

Why should I learn English? I'm never going to England. Shah, pffff, ur, doy.

Does power bring happiness? Does it bring refinement? Does it bring humor? Does it bring a good-heartedness, or is it just cold? Power is never cold. Cold people may use power in cold ways.

And I don't know how to be fine when I'm not 'Cause I don't know how to make a feeling stop.

In a digital world, the gift I give you almost always benefits me more than it costs.

When I'm at the premiere and I see the film in its entirety, I forget plot, I forget the story, I forget what my character goes through, because I really do just let it go.

The Buddha’s last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.