I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive... You don't want to give people the information in an enema.

- Buffy Sainte-Marie

Every time somebody makes an Indian movie...Cher on a horse with a headdress and a miniskirt...the fashion industry cashes in.

- Buffy Sainte-Marie

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

- Buffy Sainte-Marie

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living cont…

- Buffy Sainte-Marie

Language and culture cannot be separated. Language is vital to understanding our unique cultural perspectives. Language is a tool that is used to exp…

- Buffy Sainte-Marie

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

- Buffy Sainte-Marie

I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anyb…

- Buffy Sainte-Marie

I always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better s…

- Buffy Sainte-Marie

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You…

- Buffy Sainte-Marie