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

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

I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.

I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anybody else... All I had was my originality.

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

Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.

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.