If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination..

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me..

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it'….

There's a restless feeling knocking on my door today..

I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me..

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing.

I don't look for bliss, just contentment..

There are so many great songs yet to sing..

Being in the studio is a really romantic time..

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was workin….

I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off..

My parents made us do everything, try everything..

It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I….

I love being in the world of the unknown..

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well..

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me..

I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of e….

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting..

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of….

It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible..