[Regarding President Obama] Yeah, yeah, yeah, I talked to him. I sorta, I guess, helped him get elected.

I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.

You give out the words and then sing them. You give out the words, you know, and the people can hear what you're giving out, and they sing that song or that line and they do the same thing again.

I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.

I believe in my music.

I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.

No pleasure here on earth I find For in this world I'm bound to ramble.

I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.

when a lifestyle is created from the existence of your dream, you dont leave any room for failure.

Experience is not necessarily accumulated over the extent of time lived. In my opinion, it is accumulated over the degree and variety of activities a person has been involved in

The walls that a hateful mind builds around it, make it impossible for happiness to find its way in.

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.

The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.

There are indeed times when one should TRUST blindly, just as there are times when one should not. WISDOM consists in being able to tell one from the other.

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you.

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.