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

I loved working with Bob Dylan.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

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

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.

Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

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.