If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

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.

Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.

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.

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.

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.