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.

You can't repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.

If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

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

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