"My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved."

"I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba."

"Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins."

"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."

"We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music."

"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."

"The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art."

"You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them."