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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I feel the fluttering of dragonflies—summer creatures that have no use for words.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

THANK YOU everyone for supporting me and getting me in the top 3!!!! I love y'all!!!

Gabrielle Union is my best friend.

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.

Love and faith are both a search, a process, it doesn't stay the same; it comes and goes. In some people, it's asleep for a long time and then it wakes up as it evolves.

No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.