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.

We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.

Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.

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

We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.