Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

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.

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.

I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.

Drums usually seem to tune themselves.

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.