I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

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.

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.

With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.