There’s a great Scripture about counting the cost before you start building the house, … I think that’s a big part of the problem. Where’s the bottom end? Well, it fell out.

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

Big Mon – The Songs Of Bill Monroe,

The symphony gets the benefit for it as well. I’ve never seen a bad review on one of these shows.

Soldier Of The Cross,

He was listening to a lot of jazz and a lot of horn players. He was just real open with his playing and went places musically that other musicians weren’t going. He would break out...

I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

This was sweet to his ears. This was what pulled me away from my toys.

It’s part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There’s so much hurt in this world and… music is such a great healing balm...

My dad was a guitar player, and he sang. He knew what he liked about music. He had a great memory, and he could show me things.

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

With the name and the recognition that we’ve had for the last 15 years here in the business, I really think that we can make a difference and just let people know that, hey, bluegrass...

Uncle Pen.

We try to say, ‘look, your vote does count.’ If everybody felt that way way [that their vote didn’t count] nobody would get elected.

I think the country as a whole is embracing this music more than it ever has.

We’d like to invite you to become our newest member,

That’s the good thing about what we’re doing playing bluegrass. It doesn’t matter one way or the other whether country radio plays it or not.

Your Country, Your Vote.

I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so rarely got to go out and do it. Obviously, we don’t carry a...

more than my last album for Atlantic [his previous label].

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don’t look at it as an art form. They think it’s just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

I hate negative songs; I won’t sing them. It doesn’t matter if it’s sold 2 million more albums.

I’m not a goody-two-shoes. I’m just a father with four children.