I think that the revolution in music is over, and what's left is a mop-up action. It's a matter of the news getting out to everybody else. I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It's mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that. Everything is traditionally slow - much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.

If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?'

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music. It doesn't matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.

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