Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.

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.

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

New York, it was an adult portion. It was an adult dose. So it took a couple of trips to get into it. You just go in the first time and you get your ass kicked and you take off. As soon as it heals up, you come back and you try it again. Eventually, you fall right in love with it.

Good times don't last long sometimes.

Drums usually seem to tune themselves.