If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

Music is the language of heaven.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.

Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.

We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.