No pleasure here on earth I find For in this world I'm bound to ramble.

I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.

You give out the words and then sing them. You give out the words, you know, and the people can hear what you're giving out, and they sing that song or that line and they do the same thing again.

I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.

I believe in my music.

I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.

I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.

I guess the first time I played around Washington, D.C. was at a place called The Famous. That was the first place I played, I believe.

if the ocean can calm itself, so can you.we are both salt water mixed with air.

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

Potency does not mean being unnecessarily aggressive; one has to be wise.

I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral.

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.