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If I wasn't touring, I wasn't making money. When I got the MacArthur, I could get off that hamster wheel. It meant I didn't have to do anything.

My life used to be record, tour, record, tour. You can never say no as a freelance musician. I was on the road 200 days a year.

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There was such hostility to the idea of a banjo being a black instrument. It was co-opted by this white supremacist notion that old-time music was the inheritance of white America.

The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.

I play a replica of a banjo from the 1950s. It was the first commercial-style banjo in the United States so it's the first one that white people played.

Othering people is something that humans have done for ever.

I'm discovering so much about how invisible, othered and dismissed the Islamic world is, in terms of the massive effects it had on European music and culture.

I don't want to go on a talk show and talk about stuff I don't know about.

I'll talk about the banjo all day long and the history of minstrel shows.

When you are a commercial music artist, your music depends on your popularity.

There is music out there that is commercially driven, whether you like it or not. That's a peculiarly American innovation. We innovated the commercial music business.

In the commercial music world, the folk world, we sell records and concert tickets - this is the way I make a living. You go out, you make your art and hopefully people will put their money down for it....

I love being on the road and I love my band, but also need to be with my kids more and I need to be creating more.

Music affects people in a way that bare facts can't.

People say, 'I'm tired of thinking about race, it's a drag.' Yeah, well, welcome to my life! I don't care who you are. We have the time and the headspace for this stuff. The least you can do is take...

My stuff lives in Nashville but I live wherever my children are.

White people are so fragile, God bless 'em. 'Well, I didn't own slaves.' No you didn't. Nobody is asking you to take personal responsibility for this. But you're a beneficiary of a system that did. Just own that and move...

I love the U.K. folk scene. In the States, nobody knows what to do with me. There's still a very narrow definition of Americana.

When I first got into string-band music I felt like such an interloper. It was like I was sneaking into this music that wasn't my own... I constantly felt the awkwardness of being the raisin in the oatmeal.

I remember so vividly the first time I saw one of Marshall Wyatt's superb compilations called 'Folks He Sure Do Pull Some Bow' and seeing a picture of a black fiddler and freaking out. I had stumbled upon the hidden...

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