If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.

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?

If youre going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If youre going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation thats based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, youre down to about 10 people or so.

You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.

My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.

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