Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

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

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You To Go") popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me. The words are about honesty and freedom inside the heart.

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.

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.

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.