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You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in the details and make something that feels like it's yours.

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One time, someone came up to me and said, 'I know so-and-so. They're a professor at Harvard. They're a big fan of your work.' But that doesn't impress me more than any other people feeling that way.

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There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.

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There's this zeitgeist happening, and people are more open to 'Sorry to Bother You' being a hit with 'Get Out' being out there. But that zeitgeist is also happening because of the movements going back to Occupy and Black Lives Matter. Usually, film is years behind. It just so happens that, this time, everything is lining up.

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That punk approach of 'We don't wanna get big' is really a bourgeois thing. It's not a tactic of people that actually have been successful at changing things.

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The Box would not play 'Takin' These' because we had a scene where we were taking furniture out of Rockefeller's mansion and giving the stuff out on the street for free.

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I've never really subscribed to the theory that repression breeds rebellion. I don't think that's really true.

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I was born in Chicago. I moved to Detroit until I was six and moved to Oakland at that point. And then we had a couple years in Stockton and Pasadena. And by the time I was 13, I was back in Oakland.

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I was in an organization called Progressive Labor Party and International Committee Against Racism. And I was - I started out helping to organize a farm workers' union in Central California.

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I grew up around politics. I organized my first campaign when I was 14, a walk-out in my high school to protest the year-round school schedule.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 1st, 1971

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