I choose to express myself.

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

I choose to express myself.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

Now is the only thing that exists.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A simple smile, a tender touch, speaks the true language of love.

We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how.

With Virgin, I've just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to airlines to train companies to space companies to whatever, without ever having to worry about analysts knocking the value of my stock.

I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.

Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

How terrible it is to be woman...but only because of men.

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

I knew David Benioff a bit socially. I knew his wife, Amanda Peet. He's a smart guy, so I always sought him out at dinner parties.

The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

So we should preserve it. I don't think that digital storage is necessarily a good thing, but I definitely think that digital manipulation is interesting.

Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.

To work with the same director is a great feeling.

I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.

The image of my face I hold in my mind is always about 10 years out of date.

I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.

We thought we'd name the magazine for the number of bridges within Edmonton's city limits. We thought this number was 18. Much later, we learned that the number is actually 21. But we didn't like the sound of that so much.

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.