Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.

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.

True felicity consists of its own consciousness.

If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me.

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

As negative thoughts produce negative actions, so positive thoughts produce positive actions.

Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.

Most Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it.

If our mushrooms make you hallucinate, please inform us immediately so we can overcharge you.

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.