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I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

My dad played fiddle as well.

My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played along with him.

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'

I still play the fiddle every day. I'm afraid if I don't, it won't know who I am.

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.