Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of the banjo, I feel really good about it, including the Earl Scruggs part.

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

It doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

Sometimes you can fix something that went wrong with what you do next and make it better than it would have been if it hadn't gone wrong, as an improviser, and I do know how to do that.

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it's coming. It's coming.

I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

The road to success doesn't allow detours

Integrity must become a personal goal of a growing majority in America if we want to be a major world influence.

We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

I can get money with my eyes closed

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

A lot of people have so many issues like depression, obesity or chronic illness that has to do with gut health.

People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business