Speaking of WAMU, [bluegrass and old time music DJ] Ray Davis did a lot of work there. I've know Ray, I guess for 50 years - 40, or 50 years. And, he plays a lot of my records.

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.

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

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

I can’t imagine anything more life-giving, more comforting, or more fun than being curled up andsurrounded by a group of women who know you deeply, and love you relentlessly.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

If falling in love is like taking off or flying, then love is like landing.

Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.

No matter what happens, I'm loud, noisy, earthy and ready for much more living.

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

All religions are branches of one big tree.

My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.

So good to be alive when the eulogies are read.

Men may have wars, but women have their period. Men go off and kill each other, but women say nasty things, which is even better.