I can understand the drug thing. So they feel that it's more important to take the drugs than to do a good show for the people.

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.

She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.

I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger.

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.

What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.

I just don't identify myself with a place. I just don't get it. Like, why am I cheering for this town? Towns are good and bad but they don't have principles, constitutions. You wouldn't go to war for your town.