Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.

You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are.

And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me.

I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music

I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home

The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much

Practice like the Devil.

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.

The only way to efficiently battle evil is to copy enough to know how to counter each argument, yet not enough to believe all the bullshit.

There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.

Life is continuous. Life never stops. We come to the really great questions and before we can answer them, life has moved on to something else.

Mind your P's and Q's.

Born to myself, I like myself alone.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.

I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.

I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.

Things fall apart, even when you think they're stronger than anything you could ever imagine.