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 was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid.

People sometimes ask me, because of the blacklisting, "Do you hate the government? Don't you hate white people?" No, it's greed that's the problem.

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

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.

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

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.