You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.

My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed with myself when I push the envelope musically than I am when I push it literality.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.

I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.