Five hundred years later we're still doing it. This is a moment where we're either going to reaffirm that's what we do [with Native Americans ], that's who we are, or we're going to start moving toward change. A change won't come easy, because there's a lot of big money that doesn't care about any of this.

Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.

I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.

People who agree with you already agree with you -- you don't change peoples minds.

I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.