I say if you're not obsessing about something, you might not be into it quite enough.

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'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.

I was trained completely by ear. And it was actually diving into the Bach that led me to get - there was like a Mel Bay "Teach Yourself How To Sight Read..."

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.

If I was any happier, you'd think I was on crack.

I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time.