We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

American society has gone completely into denial.

... Grateful Dead - that's it !! ... nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn't like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, 'Yeah, that's great.' It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It's just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don't like it.

If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules first, you know.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

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