I happened to take a photo, and there was my wife, my dog and my banjo, all in the same shot - and I thought, "Oh, that's like a family portrait right there."

I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.

It's horrible for someone to listen to someone learning any instrument - when I was first learning the banjo, I used to have to go out and sit in the car, and even in the summertime I'd have to roll up the windows. Because you just couldn't practice a banjo or a fiddle with other people around. Unless they're being paid.

I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.

There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of course, is cat juggling.

There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.