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

The thing of being able to share somebody's reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know. Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody's reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically. The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go? If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which... you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.

Too much of a good thing is just about right

Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times.

Now there is no place you can go where you don't hear certain types of music.

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

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.