The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.

Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable.

Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.