I think people are largely proud of being musically on the risk. Any time you talk to someone about music, I feel like everyone is kind of always underlining just, you know, how voracious their appetites for various things are.

I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin.

If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words.

I'll never feel as comfortable singing as I do playing. The mandolin is my real voice. My actual voice is sort of my secondary voice, but I love to do it and I love giving people relief from playing with a little bit of singing.

My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

The minute you make a record because you think somebody's going to play it on the radio is the minute you ought to quit.

I celebrate three holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Telluride.