In ?66 when we were playing that music, people were flipping out with anger at that music and hated it,

In ?66 when we were playing that music, people were flipping out with anger at that music and hated it. Then we?re doing it a few years later, and people said, ?This is the real deal, and we knew it all along.

In 1966, when we were playing that music, ... people were flipping out with anger at that music and hated it.

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list.

I remember from my earliest years, ... people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.

My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things.