“I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.”

Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’

Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.

The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?

Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright

It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.

Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.

I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.

I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.

Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.

And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.

If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.

I feel like making music because – and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record – there’s more of myself in it.

I’m not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?

Yet, when your ears come upon the truth, the facts of life, you hide your faces and cry, not able

I believe a lot in the subject of the power our own bodies have as marginalized beings to be able to change the sense of things.

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.

You can learn a little bit from everybody, so you should be able to work a bit with everybody.