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.

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.

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.

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