With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.

The only way things work around here is if everybody wants it to work. If everybody wants it to work, then it has a prayer. Even then, there's no guarantee. But at least it has a prayer.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.

If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.

To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.