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.

I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.

It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.

I try to imagine the scenes as I'm writing them as if I were watching them play like a film.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

When it was availed to me that I had free time, I chose to go to cooking school every day, six hours a day, like a diploma program. I wanted to learn something new.

No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy it is that which we think and feel and do first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

The biggest issue by far is that carbohydrates are absolutely at the cornerstone of all of our major degenerative conditions.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

I've always been a family entertainer. Every show I have done has been suitable for any age - parents never need to worry that, if they pop out of the room, I'll say anything untoward.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

Seth Meyers is highly overrated as a comedian.

There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.

I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds.

If you're interested or like it, but could be just as happy living in a regular town, having a regular job, maybe doing little theatre, you're better off and you'll be a happier person. This is too gut-wrenching and heartbreaking.