Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.

A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is someway.

The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron.

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.