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

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

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.

The way you walk, talk, stand, and carry yourself sends messages to others that can attract or repel, encourage or discourage, and impress or depress.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

We can't allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.

My wife Shanti and I are blessed with two wonderful daughters. Nothing is more important to us than protecting their future and the future of every Arkansas child.

Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

Lord, help us to recognize you in the sick, poor and suffering.

There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line.

Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.