I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.

I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.

You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.

I like drums, really, if they're under control.

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.

He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.

Great acting is not easy; anyone who says it is is either shallow or a charlatan. And one of the hardest things about acting is admitting that it is hard

It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath.

I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I'm an actor who can dance.

At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.

I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship with Asia.

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.

Of the fellows least likely to be president, you'd have to vote Jack No. 1.

I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.

I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

Seduction isn't making someone do what they don't want to do; seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure.

Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

Hope is a belief in a better tomorrow.

They say never trust a skinny chef, but the fact is, to stay healthy when you're a chef means you have to work twice as hard.

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind