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 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.

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

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

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.

The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?

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