We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.

There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?