When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

It's not the size of the nose that matters, it's what's inside that counts.

It's pain that changes our lives.

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.