In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.

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'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.

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

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

I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.

I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.