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Buffy Sainte-Marie

I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don’t know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped – there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done – but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.

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I lead a charmed life.

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When I was three, I didn’t play with other kids very much; I was kind of isolated. I got used to be being bullied and having to think my way out of situations in the same way that other kids would fight their way out. Then I discovered a piano, and it became my playmate.

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All my first albums, they’re full of heart and emotion, and the songs are wonderful, but they wouldn’t have been the takes I would have chosen.

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I was very unhappy when I used to record and things wouldn’t turn out the way I would want to, because I was being such a nice girl. I wouldn’t complain when things were going wrong.

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When I first got famous in the ’60s, I got a little too famous, and in order to escape showbusiness, I moved to Hawaii.

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I’ve always had that attitude about my career: it’s something that I do, but it’s not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I’ve got a lot of chickens, I’ve got a horse, I’ve got a kitty-cat, I’ve got a lot of goats, I’ve got animals all over the place.

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I didn’t get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I got into music because I was a natural writer and had a lot of curiosity about sound.

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It never occurred to me that I was important enough to have some politician go out of his way to silence me. I only found out about it in the ’80s by accident – a broadcaster announced they received letters of commendation from the White House for having suppressed my music. My career was so highly impacted in the U.S. it will never recover.

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I’ve had a different kind of career on the periphery of show business. I’ve never been on any kind of corporate timetable whereby every six months I have to pop out a record like a pulping mill. I’ve called my own shots. When I get tired, I take time off.

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The input of Idle No More has been a lightning rod for people who were already thinking this way. We are reaching clarities on bigger issues like fracking and GMOs and climate change.

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I’m told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.

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