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.

A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house.

Don't give up trying to find your way. But do remember that sometimes it takes bending to avoid breaking.

I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion.

God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours.

I don't try to try to judge people on performance in one short period of time.

From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger

But in action, one defies one's character.

New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate.

NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.

Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

The president I came to know best was George Herbert Walker Bush. No. 41 in your program, No. 1 on your list of fast-playing golfers.

We had the best food any battlefield ever had.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

I worked on this Showtime series called 'Beggars and Choosers,' this was like 2000, and Bea Arthur guest-starred on our show. I always loved 'The Golden Girls,' and thought she was a supreme comedy actress, supreme actress period.

Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.

It was an interesting experience to work alongside the solicitor general's team and then turn around and argue against them. You certainly grow as a lawyer from getting such a varied set of experiences.

If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner.