People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that's left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

Now there is no place you can go where you don't hear certain types of music.

I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.

I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.