I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.

If you don't let things develop, it's like keeping something in a bag and not letting it out to fly

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina.

I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it.

He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a quip that was like so perfect and so brilliant, very smart.

It's made a lot of people richer from hearing Earl Scruggs. And I just think we're all very lucky to have him in the world.

Earl Scruggs is the guy who really made that leap with using three fingers in a rotating fashion to create this fast rippling sound that had never been heard before.

Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions.

Life is a mystery unveiled with the conscience of truth

You’re allowed to manipulate the environment, but not the character.

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

If I had to live again I would do exactly the same thing. Of course I have regrets, but if you are 60 years old and you have no regrets then you haven't lived.

Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.

We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other

What was new was the fact that, despite my heart doing its fight-or-flight, help-we're-prey-and-HEY-STUPID-THAT'S-A-VAMPIRE number, I was glad to see him. Ridiculous but true. Scary but true.

Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.

One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered except music, really.