Quotes from Robbie Robertson

Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through.

My mother was a Mohawk, born and raised on a reservation, and when I was a kid, she would take me there to visit her relatives.

There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads... and the pictures were so vivid.

You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

Do you know what a skin walker is? It's a thing in Indian mythology. There are certain people born with this gift, and they're able to actually get inside you and mess with your feelings and with your mind. And if a skin walker chooses to get a hold of you, there's not much you can do.

When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.

After the 'Last Waltz' concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as far out of my mind as I possibly could.

I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.

I think the world of Chuck Berry.

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.

I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.

I always like to keep one hand in the tepee and the other hand in the synagogue. Wouldn't it be great if there was a combination of the two? You could go to synagogue, and it would be really hot in there.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

Up on Cripple Creek she sends meIf I spring a leak she mends meI don't have to speak, she defends meA drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' 'bout half-past deadI just need some place where I can lay my head."Hey, mister, can you tell where a man might find a bed?"He just grinned and shook my hand; "No" was all he said.

Garth was a reservoir of brilliant music, and I wanted to dive in deeply to learn and understand enough of it to appreciate its rewards.

From a very early age I remember a phrase being quietly passed around among our relatives at Six Nations: "Be proud you are an Indian, but be careful who you tell.

Let's go over to Salvador Dali's suite at the St. Regis Hotel for a nightcap." This sounded like a surreal idea to me.

Albert said he wanted to invent a delicious sandwich glue so nothing would ever slip out.

Bad habits, we were collecting them like coins, and we knew how that worked: the more you get, the more you want.

The news was somewhere between an incredible accomplishment and a huge disaster.

One evening in our bedroom, with Dominique asleep and me up watching TV, I was startled by a bird flying manically around the room. After a moment I realized it wasn't a bird at all—it was a bat. I'd duck every time it flew over the bed, trying to figure out what to do. Eventually I crawled along the floor to the wall and opened a window, and it flew right out. The

But it's hard to be judgmental about anybody when you're no angel yourself, so you live and let live without recognizing danger up ahead.