They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.

So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

Saliva has antibacterial properties. It also has things called nerve growth factor, skin growth factor, histatins which help with wound closure. So when you see an animal licking a wound or even a mom kissing a child's boo-boo, there's some, there's some good science behind why one might do this.

I don't even like parties.

There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.

Yes, I have made a woman cry.

Ice and iron cannot be welded.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

I think life is what you live every day, and it just keeps coming at you. You never know what it's going to be.

Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.

I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

Prophecy today is hardly the romantic business that it used to be. The old tools of the trade, like the sword, the hair shirt, and the long fast in the wilderness, have given way to more contemporary, mundane instruments of doom --the book, the picket and the petition, the sit-in at City Hall.

War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.

Don't make a threat and then not do it.

Friends ask why youre crying. Best friends already have the shovel ready to bury the loser that made you cry.

I was always on my swag since I was younger.

Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

When I was a little girl, I got 'Time' magazine every week, and I wanted my face on the cover, but I've changed a lot since then.

I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.

Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now.

There were times my immaturity kept me from being all I wanted to be.

I do not want to name any individual names, but I felt like when I was working in Hollywood, there were some fellow colleagues of mine who didn't even look me in the eyes because I was Asian.

I don't really have time to watch too much, but I like 'Family Guy' and 'Entourage.' I'm also obsessed with the YouTube series 'Balls of Steel.' It's hilarious.

My vision is to hire qualified employees that may have not yet had the opportunity to create a better life for themselves, or did have one but might have came down on hard times and need a hand.

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?