The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling about it to certain people.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

It's not tipping I believe in. It's overtipping.

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.