Honest songs aren`t written for money.

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.

There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along.

In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.

I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio, and you didn't hear on the juke boxes, and in theaters. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos.