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.

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

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about.

All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.

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.