When Jack White called and wanted me to do a video and play mandolin with The Raconteurs, I didn't know anything about The Raconteurs at that time.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

Great music is great music, period.

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

Anything is better than stagnation.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

Every punch that's thrown is mine. Every punch that's caught, I catch.

Drugs will turn you into your parents.

I think we have people that are not even leaving their comfort zone to engage people with the gospel. I don't know if you can be overzealous, but you can be unwise in the way you do it.

When it comes to exchanges with people, I think, the more genuine you can be, the more giving you can be, the more you will, in the end, feel fulfilled.

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]