My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.

Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.

It's weird sometimes to have people not see me or see what I do.

When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?

I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.

What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.