I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.

I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess.

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.

Some people are good cooks and some people are good... I don't see why you have to do all of that.

I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this with sheet music.

I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.