I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.

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.

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.

I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.

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

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.

Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.

Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

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

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

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

When you here a conjunto and you hear another conjunto, you think it's like a continuation of the first. It's all the same, same, same. There's no variety, just the same music.

Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.

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.

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

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.

Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.

Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

I don't consider myself a star or a celebrity or anybody, you know. I just think of myself as doing something that I love to do.

I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.

Usually, the extras have a different mentality. I had the mentality of an artist, because I was a 'ballet-rina.' But most extras are out to make a fast buck for nothing. They're 'atmosphere.'

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Breakthrough is how to distinguish a leader and who followed.

Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.

Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

I respect music, I do. I love it.

Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.

Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they have advice on that too!

The best decision I made at NYU was joining the Shakespeare ensemble. It literally led to everything I did after that. It gave me the kind of confidence I really needed.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he has lost no time.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS.

I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.

President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.