I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listening to stuff like that.

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.

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

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.

Death to the pigs is my basic statement.

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."

I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.