DAN FOGELBERG

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.

MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends.

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.

I choose to express myself.

I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.

Now is the only thing that exists.

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.