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.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

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

In my own musical existence I don't feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician. Playing in a group, I'm tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That's just me getting older. I'm not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.

What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.

I recognize that as a musician there is a certain chauvinism attached to it, which is the thing of, "I spent my time learning how to play. You didn't spend time learning how to play, therefore, you are not a musician."

And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.