The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we played were enormous, and we played free. So you've got a band that loves to play free, and that was a wonderful thing.

I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.

People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.

The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we played were enormous, and we played free. So you've got a band that loves to play free, and that was a wonderful thing.

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.