I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.

She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.

It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book. ... But there certainly is a difference in energy between a younger man and an older man.

When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're on the road in small towns. Any time there is awe, it gets very difficult to be normal, to be yourself. But I'm not saying that that's what made me the way I am. I've probably always been distant.

So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure about her own interest in marriage. There must be one solid citizen who also had a spark of life, a sense of humor and adventure.

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

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