I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn the Punch Brothers and Marc Johnson the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio there's a lot of bluegrass there.

I get bored easily so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show which is always really fun.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths and neglect it in practice are like a harp which emits a sound pleasing to others while itself is insensible of the music.

On the other hand what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons you understand but the ghosts.

I'm a visual thinker really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics all of the weather statistics.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

The reflection of the world is blues that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

You know all my songs are relatives brothers sisters cousins.

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment in terms of people moving on to do other things because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests I forget to worry.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

My sense is I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

I like movies about longing and desperation and dark and light things stories about people struggling to raise children and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

We have a very wide range of content but the brand-newest movies what's happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option - not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others - of movies that are in the theater.

The other two things are... well I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees and the more romantic the better.

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

When I was a kid I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

When I go into making a movie personally I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week double features second run.