The biggest inspiration I had was to take norteno soul music and fuse it with Mexican music. It was my great big idea to do that.
'Buena Vista Social Club' is a great song and a difficult tune to play.
Travelling is hard. I'm no traveller. I hate flying, and I hate hotels.
I always have felt that most people don't have the first idea about what musicians, in the traditional sense - I don't mean in the modern media fake way, but traditionally - what they went through, what their lives were like.
I always like spoken word records.
It all started back in '69 when I worked with Jack Nitzche on 'Performance.' That was my first experience of doing soundtracks, and I've enjoyed doing them ever since.
