"What I view life like is about energy. Everything is about energy - everything. We physically are li..." — John Trudell

I knew I had to stop running. I had to be in a place. Los Angeles became that place.

They took all our land; I don't have any land to toil. My crops have to grow somewhere else.

I appreciate all of your expressions of concern, and I appreciate all of your expressions of love. It has been like a fire to my heart.

The whole point is to take from our native culture and from contemporary culture without using one art form to mimic the other, so that our native identity remains the native identity, the contemporary identity remains the contemporary identity, and the mixing of these two musical identities creates a third musical identity.