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

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

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

See, there's only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that - the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.

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

It's a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things. If you want to separate the two, the thing you do is make drugs legal. Accept the reality that people do want to change their consciousness, and make an effort to make safer, healthier drugs.

And when you don't have to talk to the person next to you, that's real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.