My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument…

- Prefuse 73

You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.

- Prefuse 73

Just moving one keyboard or synth is a pain in the ass.

- Prefuse 73

It takes a community to start a revolution.

- Prefuse 73

It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music.

- Prefuse 73

My mother's Cubana/Irish and my dad's Catalan. And that blows my mind.

- Prefuse 73

As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.

- Prefuse 73

Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

- Prefuse 73