What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation.

I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.

There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works.

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

What a long strange trip it's been.

I recognize that as a musician there is a certain chauvinism attached to it, which is the thing of, "I spent my time learning how to play. You didn't spend time learning how to play, therefore, you are not a musician."