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

By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.

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

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

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.

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