It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.

I said I'd be honest, I never said I'd be consistant.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me. I wanted to express myself in a way that slammed people up against the wall.

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.