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

Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.

How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.

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

There's a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.

If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense. The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.