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

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.

I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working.

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