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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I had no idea how much the stuff I was doing was affecting people outside Oakland. At the time, also, hip hop wasn't able to tour because all these clubs that let hip hop come in now, they would never have let hip hop come in.