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

At some point or another, our boundaries run into the boundaries of the exterior reality. Like we run into laws and other things that we don't own or don't have control over.

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.

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

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.

What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense. The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.