Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

I had a teacher's degree and a degree in Oriental Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. I thought I was going to India to study but all of a sudden, I had a career in music. It really surprised me.

You have to leave room in life to dream.

There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.

Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art, but it is art. They'll use their imaginations, make drama, make up characters, make pictures in the sand, they'll make up songs that no one's ever heard before. All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.