My music came up from the soil of North Carolina.

You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.

If you don't let things develop, it's like keeping something in a bag and not letting it out to fly

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it.

He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a quip that was like so perfect and so brilliant, very smart.

It's made a lot of people richer from hearing Earl Scruggs. And I just think we're all very lucky to have him in the world.

Earl Scruggs is the guy who really made that leap with using three fingers in a rotating fashion to create this fast rippling sound that had never been heard before.

Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.

If we live in the moment every misery shall fade.

I'm trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.

that when given the opportunity, many honest people will cheat.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

Everything means nothing that is the only truth.

All our loves are first loves.

Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons. The establishment of a Palestinian state is a new tool to continue the fight against Israel and for Arab unity.