My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.

I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.

Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.

Religion springs from man's feeling of inferiority.

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

To remember everything is a form of madness.

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

Not everything comes together in the best way ever every day. It just doesn't.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.

But if we expect justice for ourselves, we must support it for others.

Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.