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

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

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

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.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

He was everything I never knew I was looking for.

...your life is your sermon...Are you a good translation?

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.

I think I've done every disgusting thing you can in a film.

So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again.

You have everything to gain and nothing to lose by trying.