Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.

I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.

[Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a message across a river and although the cat on the other side receiving the message didn't know the exact words, he did understand basically something about what was being communicated.

Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.