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

I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive... You don't want to give people the information in an enema.

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.

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.

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

Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.

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.