"My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school." — Levon Helm

I've always thought it was easier for girls to sing harmonies because their voices can go to that higher plane so much more easy than a male voice.

It's different playing in a studio than it is playing live, of course.

I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.

I had throat cancer, and I had to have radiation treatments, and I couldn't sing for a long time; and this was in '97. I had 28 radiation treatments. I didn't die, thank God.