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

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.

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.

It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.

Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many women come up to me now and say, 'You're so brave. I can't believe you put yourself out there like that'. If that inspires some girl out there, then great, because boys aren't the only ones who get to have fun. We get to have fun too.

I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.

I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something.

You don't go dancing in the day. You don't go golfing in the night.

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on.

I'm the hardest working person I know. I'm 20 years old - is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends?

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.