When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.

I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.

People give out compliments because it's polite.

I've been involved in a lot of different kinds of projects. I've been on straight hip hop tours. I've been on underground rock tours. I've been on multimillion selling rock shows. I've been in the jam band thing, and both commercial and underground hip hop. Very few people listen to one kind of music.

A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.

I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.

What first got me involved in politics was being 14, and a youth organizer comes to my house with a van full of 14 year old girls. "Hey, you want to go to the beach with us? But first we're going to go support the cannery workers' strike in Watsonville."