I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.

If you don't let things develop, it's like keeping something in a bag and not letting it out to fly

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina.

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it.

He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a quip that was like so perfect and so brilliant, very smart.

It's made a lot of people richer from hearing Earl Scruggs. And I just think we're all very lucky to have him in the world.

Earl Scruggs is the guy who really made that leap with using three fingers in a rotating fashion to create this fast rippling sound that had never been heard before.

Everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

Stop waiting for someone else to run your life. Get into the driver's seat and choose your destination.

I dance with hopes and sing along with possibilities.

Any one man, woman, or child can be what they want to be; but be the right thing.

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

I quit school and it's not because I'm lazy. I'm just not the social type and campus life is crazy.

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.

If the Earth has a soul, it swims in you.

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.

A lot of my inspiration is reactionary to images I see in the media.