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.

I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.

What a long strange trip it's been.

Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don't like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.

To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.

It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.

You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.