I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

I never got really good at hockey.

If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?

I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis [Armstrong] was singing a tune and it was just Satchmo and you could hear it resounding through the dance hall and people were dancing. It was a highlight.

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

Of course I knew The Band's Canadian keyboard player, the late Richard Manuel, but I didn't play that night because I was there as a guest with my record executives. People ask, "why didn't you play?" If I had known I was going to be playing then I would have been prepared for it.