You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.

Life is a song to me.

I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade.

I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do.