In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

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

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.