Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.

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.

If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

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.

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.