The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.

The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

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

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.