My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

It doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

Sometimes you can fix something that went wrong with what you do next and make it better than it would have been if it hadn't gone wrong, as an improviser, and I do know how to do that.

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it's coming. It's coming.

Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of the banjo, I feel really good about it, including the Earl Scruggs part.

I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments

A borrower who doesn't returns is a beggar.

Staring at the blue sky causes insomnia to occur in the human.

The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.

Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children.

The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

The mighty Rain Holds the vast empire of the sky alone.