I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person with the personal transformation that’s going on for me physically… That hasn’t been easy. It’s been an awesome challenge for me… because so much of how I access character is through my body.

This moment calls for honesty, it calls for reflection, and it calls for a renewed commitment to the values that the farmworker movement was built on.

I gotta have lived through some stuff. I gotta make my mistakes. I gotta win enough to get the wisdom part and then I gotta lose enough to speak honestly.

To me, it all goes together so well, ’cause it’s all so me. I never had a conversation with myself about ‘Oh, this fits,’ or, ‘This doesn’t fit.’ It was just, ‘I like this feeling, I like this feeling, I like this feeling,’ create a loose structure for what it could be, get together with musicians who are sensitive and caring, and go for it.

I carried this secret for as long as I did because building the movement and securing farmworker rights was my life’s work. The formation of a union was the only vehicle to accomplish and secure those rights and I wasn’t going to let Cesar or anyone else get in the way.

There's a reason that the opera and ballet have been around over 400 years, and I think that when you have access, you have opportunity to be a part of something, it can change your life.

Our words do much of our thinking for us; we are necessarily manipulated by them.

Without some blues, ain’t nothin’ happening. If you don’t dig the blues, you got a hole in your soul.

The truth is, I'm really in pursuit of greatness. I know people don't usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats.