I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

People are always very nice.

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

I still think of myself as from Illinois.

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.