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

...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.

If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much.

As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.

I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head...

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

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.