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

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

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.

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.

Music is the language of heaven.

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.