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

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

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.

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

If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.

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