I'm really just trying to do things that I enjoy. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to. I just have to think if I like those different kinds of music, there are other people who aren't so different from me.

I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.

The loss of Jerry Garcia feels like the end of an era in the same way it felt when Elvis died and John Lennon was killed.

The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If youre not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, youre kind of stuck.

You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.

I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.