What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

Sometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.

Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.

She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill

Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.

Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.

When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.

Do people have confidence? I think the real confidence you need is the confidence in your outlook, and I think people are pretty confident it is a low-growth world.

It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.

What I teach the people many times is that attitude and attention will determine the whole course of our lives. Get rid of fear and that is all you ever have to get rid of. Fear of anything at all.

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

I'm just gonna be honest and if I feel something, I'm just gonna say it! Once I started doing that, my music just got better.

I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.