Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?

If someone criticizes my child it's gonna hurt me a little bit, but it's my child, you know, and I love it regardless.

I love Don Williams records. And old Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to

You've got to just follow your heart and do your best work. For better or worse, I have followed my heart. There is no doubt in my mind or heart that everything I've done is exactly what I intended to do.

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

I'm a child of the woods. I have that sort of sensibility.