Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.

I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.

All songwriters are links in a chain.

Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated people playing great music by ear.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.