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

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?"

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

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.

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 always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better singer and guitar player.

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.