I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker never would have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do.

My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

We all played bad before we played good.

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

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.