Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating 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.

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

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.

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

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

There's nothing wrong with helping someone without a cost. Especially if there's no end return.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

Self respect, self worth and self love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value.

I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.

I respect Chris Brown. I'd like to call myself a friend - I don't know if I'm allowed to do that.

Happy relationships don't just happen. You make them happen.

But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.