Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me.

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

I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique.

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

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.

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

You have to leave room in life to dream.