If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.
My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.
I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.
I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.
Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.
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.