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

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.

Nothing left to do but smile.

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

With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.

The only way things work around here is if everybody wants it to work. If everybody wants it to work, then it has a prayer. Even then, there's no guarantee. But at least it has a prayer.

American society has gone completely into denial.