A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.

Whether I'm making my own record, or playing a guitar part, I want what I do to have an impact.

My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.

There ain't no future in the past.