I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.

All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

Ain't no chance if you dont take it.

I'm gonna build me a boat with these two hands, it'll be a fair curve from a noble plan.

I hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one singing.

This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.

I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.

Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.

I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

Sophistication is not science people, simplicity is.

I want to be good...I try to be good, I do try, and to like everybody. But there are some people - some people I can't like, however much I try. I hate them - there!

A teacher is like a magical mirror that will show you your future. Imagine if you have no teacher, it may mean you have no future.

The fake Zionist [regime] will disappear from the landscape of geography.

I'm a little fighter and I stand up for what I believe in.

When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in your hand.

You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.

Why can't women tell jokes? Because we marry them!

Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane.