Practice like the Devil.

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.

You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are.

And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me.

I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music

I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home

The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.

And so sometimes I would think how the devil had conquered God.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a life.

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.

I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.

Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

I'm wondering how many more mistakes I'll have to make before things finally fall into place. If they ever will.