I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.

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.

Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.

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

A thousand lifetimes I'd exchange if only I could have one with you.

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.

A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.

Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.

Our date-nightrule is no talking about the kids. That lasts about to the end of the driveway.

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

We are living in the time of self-creation and you can become your own star and this is the essential set that it needs to take that selfie that's going to take you to that next place.