Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

I think we've always been better live.

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

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

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

Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

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.

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

Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast.

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

I loved working with Bob Dylan.

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

Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes.

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

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.

Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.

I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.

I quit college and neglected to tell my dad.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

I think that with Bob Dylan around, we're living in an era where we have Whitman presenting new work, we have Dickens presenting new work, we have Yeats and Shakespeare presenting new work. It's that level.

I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with them. I didn't have any faith in my voice.

I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.

In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept writing songs, but it wasn't anything that was up the Heartbreakers tree, I didn't think - and I don't think they did, either. So I kept writing songs for the hell of it, but I didn't want to make a record just for the sake of making a record.

What a good session musician does is listen to the song, to the artist, and to the other players. That way you can help bring out the song and help the artist express what they want to express. It's never about you stepping out and showing you can play something fancy.

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.

The kids get a vote. That's very important when it comes to raising kids. And always keep the bigger picture in mind.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.'

Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.

To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there.

Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away.

The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake.

It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.

Indiana was so lovely. Just so lovely.

Until mountain biking came along the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergis to enthusiasm.

Fashion changes. Everyone in fashion changes. I think it's important to change it up and reinvent yourself every now and again.

If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

I like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She's really, really classy and always really sophisticated.

America, North and South, is a choice land, a land reserved for God's own purposes.

I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.

Why do we have to have another riot?

I would never do anything that makes the perception of country music worse.

An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.

Get in the habit of vetting your research as you go - particularly research conducted online. Verify facts from multiple reputable sources before you record them.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.