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

You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.

Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock.

You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What it can do, what it can't do.

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

Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.

We are not completely autonomous.