The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.

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

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about the characters, you don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something important. I love that. I'm really a sucker for that kind of song.

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.

The nature of what we're doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic. There's no way that you can make it happen by intention alone. It's something that you have to sort of allow it to happen, and you have to allow for it to happen.

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