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.

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.

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.

A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.

How did pretty little Anna go from Westchester suburb brat to New York hooker? Now that’s a story.

To receive everything, one must open one’s hands and give.

[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.

And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.

Never. Till my last breath I will work. To retire there is only one place-the cremation ground.

I've never worked with an actor that I did not like.

Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons.

Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.