I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

When I am willing, all sound is available to me.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back.

You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...