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

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

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

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.

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.

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

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.