Sixty percent of the vegetables you see in the supermarkets came from the American Indians. They also gave us aspirin and quinine. And their model of government parallels our Senate. But their women elected the chiefs, and impeached them.

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

I've never been ambitious about recording

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.