The Japanese are hard to figure out.

Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.

Kerouac was a breeze, some kind of incredible super-American, mythos personality blasting through the highways of 1947 America.

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about the characters, you don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something important. I love that. I'm really a sucker for that kind of song.

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