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

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.

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 moment you realize your eyes hurt not because of rubbing them, but because of the tears you wasted, on him.

Her heart felt too full, a dry creek bed ill-prepared for such rain.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

What kind of guardian are you? Shouldn't you have gone to the bathroom with him?" Isabelle demanded. Jordan looked horrified. "Dudes," he said, "do not follow other dudes to the bathroom.

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.