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."

A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.

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

A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.

I wanted to be part of changing the world. I don't want to just stand by and watch it be however it is.