At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

I think intellectualization is what's killing most people.

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

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.