What’s the point if you make something that’s not you, and you’re successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

I’ve bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.

I’ve sung since I talked, when I’m two, but what I sang was ballads, because it’s very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you’re a kid.

When I write a song it’s always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.

My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they’d bring me cartons of mango baby food – the only kind I’d eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she’d slip in a Cuban record.

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it’s a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it’s in my head.

It’s not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We’re just human beings that are still a work in progress and there’s a lot that we’ve got to overcome, so that we can all be equal.

She’s an amazing dog and really inspired everything that’s in this book.

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It’s what I love to do the most.

This blend of musicians on ‘90 Millas’ is historically significant on a number of levels. This is the first and quite possibly the last time that all of these legendary artists will play together on one CD.