Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

It doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

Sometimes you can fix something that went wrong with what you do next and make it better than it would have been if it hadn't gone wrong, as an improviser, and I do know how to do that.

There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it's coming. It's coming.

Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of the banjo, I feel really good about it, including the Earl Scruggs part.

I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

Sometimes you must earn the right to be included. Otherwise, you may appear awkward or pushy.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

I always enjoy myself fighting in Mississippi. I enjoy myself fighting anywhere.

Sometimes I think that if I wasn't crazy... I'd go crazy.

And maybe now you'll start treating everybody with respect. Not just the people you think are important.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.