La Bamba

“I saw this and I'm so excited Criterion did this. La Bamba, pretty much one of my favorite music biopics. So great. The music is killer. It's got commentaries, so even more exciting. Great, La Bamba. Actually, the cool thing about this too is when I was a kid my dad worked in VHS distribution... It showed me a lot of films that I would have never seen had it not been for that closet.”

“La Bamba. Se necesita una poca de gracia. Una poca de gracia. Exactly. This is important for me because I’m an immigrant, and, coming to America, I had a dream. My English was terrible. But when I did an album called The Carnival, I defied language. Because what I learned from this story was that what’s bigger than language is cultural vibration. This was amazing. I ain’t going to lie to y’all, I did cry at the end of this. I ain’t let my girl see me tearing, but…...”