I just make music based on what I believe.

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.

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."

People give out compliments because it's polite.

What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection to trying to make revolutionary change, and I don't need to change my music to get to a certain audience.

All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message.

Death to the pigs is my basic statement.