Like anybody else of my era, I listened to a whole lot of Michael Jackson. I guess I was probably inspired by the way he danced, and the way he sang, and his image.

Because music gets you high, so it makes sense to sing about what else gets you high.

It seems like everyone's listening to fiddles and banjos.

It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

Sometimes our significant others travel with us.

I think country music is a champion of women. That stuff coming out of Nashville now wants to see a woman looking good in the kitchen whipping up some biscuits.

We never had a girl in the band. Why? Certainly there's some rippin' female players in our kind of music. We have no objection to it. It'd be wonderful.

I heard Pete Seeger records when I was a kid. I saw Bob Dylan when I was about 12. The first song I ever learned to play was a song by Phil Ochs.

I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music.

The stage of Creation is a Timeless Marche. The three measures of Nothing, Possibility, and Chaos will eternally ensure that the script continues on.

Miseries of a birth.

The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent.

Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid

I never had any boyhood ambitions.

You're a refraction of the one light. You're a waveform of light. You're a fractal, a pattern that continuously changes.

I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

We white people think that we know everything.

There are not that many people in the movies today that really make me go out and buy a movie ticket.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.