“All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!”

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.

Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity… life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn’t?

If you can’t find good in your own country, you won’t find it anywhere else.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.

The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.

Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.

I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.

Getting carried away is stupid, it won’t get me anywhere. -Nana Komatsu