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?

It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.

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

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

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'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.