I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.

I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.

You give out the words and then sing them. You give out the words, you know, and the people can hear what you're giving out, and they sing that song or that line and they do the same thing again.

I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.

I believe in my music.

I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

No pleasure here on earth I find For in this world I'm bound to ramble.

I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.

I guess the first time I played around Washington, D.C. was at a place called The Famous. That was the first place I played, I believe.

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

Don't try to impress a loser because If one is not happy about the things happening in their life, one cannot be happy about the things happening in someone else's life.

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or by duplication

Those who believe in quality produce quality goods.

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.