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"That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all."
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"I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment."

"You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other."

"Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other."

"There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar."

"I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear."

"Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine."

"I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack."

"I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live."
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