There are so many great songs yet to sing.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.