Once we get into the groove, we’re kind of like long-distance runners – that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running – and I don’t stop!

It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work.

The film I think was a good film for what it was designed for. It was for kids. Unfortunately the critics slashed it before it even started but that is just the way the cookie...

I pick my nose and I’m not ashamed to admit it. If there’s a bogey then just pick it, man.

My favorite moments in the show are when I stand by myself and sing.

Who told you I was a musician?

I’m not eager to jump into marriage again. I’m in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

I’m not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John’s....

I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then.

I dont really look at myself as a role model .And I just am the way I am and if people want to look up to me,they do.By no means do I like to give...

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.

One thing about white people is that in their videos they don’t care. They can go out in cut-up jeans and do a video, and it’ll be large.

I’m just excited to show that everything that was likable about us when we first came out is still intact, and as strong if not stronger than it was.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

For the past 32 years, I’ve done nothing outside the entertainment business. I’ve had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I’m not a good mandolin player at all.

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

To me, when a great band is playing together, it’s amazing for me.

Andrew Wood’s death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful...

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

But it’s just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

That’s how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It’s not about marketing.

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

I thought the Goldmine article was real good but I do know that the discography was missing a lot of records and had some wrong information in it.

I’ve been to nudist beaches, like twice. But honestly, I just don’t want to see these people naked. Most people look better with their clothes on, and the few that don’t, look better than you,...

I like the last Scarface album a lot.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I...

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

The way I look at it you can always get better.

There are relationships where a guy already has a girlfriend and he’s got one on the side, too.

I’m pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition.

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street… those were like real accomplishments to me.

This is the best night of my life. And it’s going to get better.

Man, I’ll tell you as far as creatively speaking man, there is stuff that is unique and different about every person that is born into this world.

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.

With U2, I got to see how another band worked, and you get to try to listen like they listen because you want to fit into their songs.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don’t have the time for it.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn’t back out after a first single. Everyone’s so used to hearing me with Hootie, they’re going to be skeptical.