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Mexico is a mosaic of different realities and beauties.

Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

Really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways.

I felt completely at home in Mexico - speaking Spanish to my cousins, running around Acapulco and stuffing my face with mole and homemade tortillas. Mexico opened my heart.

There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.

I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

You have the United States, and you have Mexico, and then you have this Mexican-American thing which is this third culture, which I like to call Aztlan.

As a city, it is always compelling. But every day in Mexico City, I give thanks that I am alive.