People ask if my parents are hippies, but they're actually very conservative. A girl called Rebel sang at their wedding, and that's where my name came from.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

My parents were/are straight-edge hippies. Mom roamed around gardening so we would have fresh food, and Dad was on wood-chopping duty to heat our passive solar home that they figured out how to design and build together. I was the kid with green peppers in my lunch, and I liked them!

I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn't do anything,' because, frankly, it's said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris blondes and switchblades.

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

My family my parents are hippies.