“As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high h...” — Valerie June Quote

“As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.”

“I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.”

“One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.”

“I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.”

“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.”

“If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.”