My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

I'm a badass. I really am. When you see me hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg, I am perfectly at home and comfortable.

To love means you also trust.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.

And my voice now is a struggle, it's a daily struggle to keep it up. Gravity has begun to fight the vocal cords the way it does with everybody. So I have a vocal therapist, and we record the sessions and I use them on tour every day.

Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.