I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

Now is the only thing that exists.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn’t worth much any more.

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I’ve got quite a collection.

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

I was blessed with a gift. It’s a gift and a curse. It never ends.

You’re successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

I choose to express myself.

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don’t consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.

I had gone full-on folkie; I’d had it with bands.

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.

I had never done TV. I think it’s a foolish medium for, most rock ‘n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.

In our first 14 months of treatment, we have succeeded in slowing the progression of my prostate cancer down to an almost negligible level, … (My wife) Jean and I are thrilled and incredibly relieved...

I love home. I’ll stay up there for days on end, I won’t even go down the driveway to look for the mail.

It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.

While we understand that what we ‘ re dealing with is a long term condition that will have to be dealt with, monitored and treated for probably the rest of my life, we are terribly...

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

MTV didn’t call. I guess I wasn’t hip and groovy enough.

Do yourself and your loved ones a huge favor and GET CHECKED REGULARLY, … I promise you, you DON’T want to go through what I ‘ m going through if you can avoid it.

I love to laugh, it’s my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

While we understand that what were dealing with is a long term condition that will have to be dealt with, monitored and treated for probably the rest of my life, we are terribly encouraged to...

I love to rock ‘n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

Run For the Roses.

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

not only misrepresent(ed) the extent of my illness but also the treatment involved.