“I just wanted a style of music all my own.”

Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.

I just hope bluegrass entertainers take care of their music and take care of their fans. If you don’t practice, the man next door who is practicing will beat you.

I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name “bluegrass.” There is not a prettier name in the whole world.

Practice every time you get a chance

Country music belongs to America.

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer – not on my private life.

I wanted to look different because I felt different

I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.

Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.

I always wanted to make an album and it was an idea that came to me when we first started working on Aladdin.

Which would have been a very interesting thing to have done, but we were very aware that we wanted a bizarre kind of production value on the record.