In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.

The sun will shine in my back door one day.

Kerouac was a breeze, some kind of incredible super-American, mythos personality blasting through the highways of 1947 America.

There's a lot there to enlarge you. That's part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.

We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.