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.

The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.

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.

And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.

It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.