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

You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.

I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

You are the crown of creation, and you've got no place to go.

You start out performing because it's fun, then you learn more things and you want to do more than go "Na-na-na-na" on a stage. The production end is interesting, writing is interesting, and you learn to coordinate all these things.

Ideal government would be a very boring job - it would be a matter of organizing a lot of utilities and keeping the wires together and the power plant and all that kind of stuff. It's not a matter of telling people how to live, it's a matter of making it pleasant for them to live. Government should be in the position of distributing food, stuff like that.