I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working.

I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.

I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.

I loved working with Bob Dylan.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

I think we've always been better live.

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

I just don't get if you have ever gotten offended by a joke, why would you go to a comedy club? That's where jokes happen.

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

I'm glad I started so young, because you are really able to endure so much at that age.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

When I say “when you’re always almost lonely, you forget to take it slowly,” I mean that you don’t always take care of yourself.

You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!