Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.

Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can't do anything.

Music is my life. It's inseparable from anything else that I do.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.

I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can't be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers. The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!

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.