This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.

All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.

Ain't no chance if you dont take it.

I'm gonna build me a boat with these two hands, it'll be a fair curve from a noble plan.

I hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one singing.

I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.

Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.

I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

The desert shatters the soul's arrogance and leaves body and soul crying out in thirst and hunger. In the desert we trust God or die.

Happiness is the moment when one doesn't feel pain.

My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

I love the outdoors. I love to hike. I spend a lot of time in LA and so I hike all the hills.

I should warn you that underneath these clothes I'm wearing boxer shorts and I know how to use them.

Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?