Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.

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 and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

With all due respect to Mick Jagger, who is one of my idols, I think it's a mistake to leap around and sing at 53. When I started, there weren't any women I looked up to. It was Mick. I never saw anybody go on a stage and have that tongue-in-cheek attitude. It was all straight, including the Beatles. I love his attitude, hands on hips and lips out.

You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons