[cuban Coffee Is] Very Powerful, Very Sweet,

Everything That An Artist Does Is A Risk. Some People Want You To Stay The Same. If You Want To Evolve, They Want To Keep You In A Certain Place.

The Last Thing I Wanted To Do Was Put Politics Into My Music... Because Music Was My Escape.

Well First Of All, I'm A Singer. I Sing Since I Talk. So The Great Ballad Singers, The People That Sang With So Much Feeling, Jazz, Blues, All Those Singers, They Were Songs That I Listened To, Records That My Mom Played For Me, And Then Later I Bought.

More Than Anything I Want To Be Able To Go Back To Cuba, To Have A House To Visit There, To Know My Roots. Then, At Last, I Could Sing For My People.

My Son Traveled The World With Me On Every Tour. He Wasn't A Lover Of School, So It Was Easy With Him. I Had A Tutor On The Road, Keep Him At The Same Level, So When He'd Pop Back Home He'd Go Right Back In.