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

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

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.

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.

Right now, America is under the gun. It's being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.

So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.