Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

It doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of the banjo, I feel really good about it, including the Earl Scruggs part.

There is a tendency to want to isolate a little bit, from people that might look at me from a fan position, because it's hard to be a real person around them, and I really want that when I'm not out on tour and in that sort of public eye.