Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

One night around that time, at Hammersmith, Bob Dylan was about to go into [his 1963 classic] 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.He said, 'Hey, Bucky! Play mandolin on this.' I am not really a mandolin player; I could only play in certain keys. Halfway through, he stops the band, turns to the audience and points to me. He says: 'He isn't playing, he's miming.' And then: 'Should I fire him?' The whole audience yells.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.

Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard by this. All my songs have been written by people who went out of fashion years ago. Just like da Vinci and Renoir and van Gogh. Nobody paints like that anymore. But it can't be wrong to try.

When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.