Right now, America is under the gun. It's being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.

You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.

What a long strange trip it's been.

I'll try any guitar just to see if it's different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere. I'm trying to have a guitar built. What's needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.

You reach into cyberspace and you grab some cyber stuff, build it up, and the computer will give you a 360 of it.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.

The performances in the future would be like an audience wired to somebody who was sort of instigating, and then moment-to-moment creation would be transmuted individually.