“Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a genera...” — Ruben Blades Quote

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

Our whole family had been sports oriented. My dad had played a lot of semipro but never had any opportunity to do anything with it. Back then, he had to make a living.

Films have always been youth oriented.

I'm a songwriter-singer. I'm very vocal oriented, of course, but songwriting - no matter whether it's for myself or another artist - is of paramount importance to it all.

Germany is very free-trade oriented.