I didn't know my Dad – he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.
I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.
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My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum – she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.
