I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.
I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.
It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
I always try to give my songs as gifts.
My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
Now is the only thing that exists.
My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.