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

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 working with Bob Dylan.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.

I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.