We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music. It doesn't matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.

Why it's okay for people to tape the shows? Because even so, there's no way you can bottle up the experience. You can take the notes home, but that experience is one you have to be there.

And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

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

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.