My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

Groundhog Day is a lot like a rock concert but the people are better behaved and there's a groundhog involved.

The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show.

Write this down: My life is full of unlimited possibilities.

Plan for the rest of my life, I will travel the world and retire in the himalayas.

What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

When I got the job on 'Lost, ' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

Drug prices are a problem. Access is a problem.

Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.