If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.

I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.

The greatest sin is carelessness.

I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.

Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time.

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.