“We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.”

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.

Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.

To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.

You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

We were just in line to see what was going to happen.

We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.

The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.

What a long strange trip it’s been.

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.

I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.

Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.

The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.

American society has gone completely into denial.

I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.

I can control most things, but I don’t seem to be able to control death.

To have the Raiders global, and we’re not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium.

I wasn’t really able to love someone but I couldn’t help but want to be loved.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing.

For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.

Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.