I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

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

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.

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

If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.