Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.