“I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.”

I am quite an early riser – I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

I want to do a make-up line for men.

I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.

I loved being in a band.

People tend to keep their distance.

I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman’s face.

I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn’t talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

Cause people lose it, they lose it – they say: ‘I like that, and that’s not this.’

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It’s a product of stress and in my case over-work.

I’m a punk rocker. I don’t do Christian.

There is always room at the top, don’t let them tell you there is not.

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I’ve got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide

The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.

You describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind’s negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future.

No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

This grateful awareness heightens our sensitivity to divine direction.

That’s what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I’m selling hope and life and success and that’s why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.

During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.

When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].

I’m a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.