You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.

I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.

Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

I loved working with Bob Dylan.

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.