"The border still doesn't make much sense in my mind. It's a place that has so many things going on, a lot of sad stor…"

"We [as Latinxs] got to be there representing, explaining, and translating…It’s the only way we are going to have peop…"

"I think that I have influenced several generations of performers in Mexico. I’m proud of that because it isn’t easy i…"

"Oh it’s very beautiful to have a very rich heritage from my Indian ancestors. My mother is Mixtec [a native tribe of …"

"I consider myself a border person, even though I grew up in the south of Mexico and very north of the U.S., in Minnea…"

"The sin is about our notion of what is right and what is wrong, and how we bend the truth based on we want and I thin…"

"When I was in college, I wanted to know more about my Native American past because I come from one of the 64 Native g…"

"My mother would really make me notice the world of women, and in Latin America they have a kind of magic in that they…"

"I also come from a matriarchal family. My grandmother was left alone, not by choice. And then my mother as well. We l…"

"I feel a spiritual sense, and that sense is a connection between generations. Some of the lyrics are about connecting…"