I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.

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.

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

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.

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.

The spark of light in the soul is beginning of self awareness.

At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the very thing I used my imagination to avoid.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

One of the things that writers worry about is finding a voice. I don't think it's a thing that you find so much as it is something that comes to you, or that presents itself.

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

On the whole I prefer cats to women because cats seldom if ever use the word 'relationship'.

Everybody has a mean streak in them, don't they?

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.