It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

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

There's a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

Too much of a good thing is just about right

Sometimes you have to be clever.

Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music. It doesn't matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.