Denial is really death. People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river.

In America, we have a government that is now run by white nationalists, by billionaires, by incredible misogynists.

If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.

I think many of us get separated from the mothership - our body - early on. I think the mothership is also the Earth, and life itself. Trauma separates us from that and dissociates us from our hearts.

To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to complain.

My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.