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The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.

Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.

When we decided to go to Cuba to perform, we did it because we just wanted to build a bridge, you know, between Cuba and the rest of the community. And we just wanted to prove that music and art need to be over all ideology or way to think life, and we just wanted to go in there and play just because of love.

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.

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

I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other.

The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.