Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language.

It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.

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

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.

Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground.