Ain't no chance if you dont take it.

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.

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.

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

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.

She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy.I do have a knack for finding great women.

The only thing you have to show for a wasted or spent time is that you just realize that you are getting older.

Never be seduced by the sweet promises of a better path

The simplest formular for a fulfilled life is

I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.

I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks.

Dream big, talk big, and turn your faith loose!

It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.

The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.

We still have hope; it is what keeps us going.