I like all the kinds of music I've been into. I'm certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff. The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that's their business.

I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren't many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

There are any number of things that survive great, and don't need any kind of consciousness, so why bother going through all the trouble of evolving monkeys that don't run very well or climb very fast or have particularly sharp teeth, but have big heads.

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

To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom.

And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.