I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.

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.

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.

I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

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.

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.