Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.

I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.

I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.

You know, I'm a fan of Laurie Anderson. One of my favorite records is 'The Ugly One With the Jewels,' a spoken-word record. It's an extraordinary album.

I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part - I don't really know what they're talking about.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.