“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.””

Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely.

A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you’re not writing a song, it’s like that.

I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn’t want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, “Don’t be sexist!” because that’s not how I talk in regular life.

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.

I wanted to be part of changing the world. I don’t want to just stand by and watch it be however it is.

In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.

Well, here’s an opportunity to continue working to organize these million people even if he is not the one in office.

I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

The only time I’d played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.

But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.

Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.