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

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language.

Seeing sound, the high order stuff that's not audible still affects how everything else behaves. There might be a visual metaphor for that somewhere.

Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four.

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

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.