Leo Kottke

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.