Only America makes you feel that everybody wants to be like you. That's what success is: Everybody wants to be like you.

Jerry Garcia was one of the original American icons. He played naturally and beautifully.

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body--like radiation, cancer, and all.

Sound has no parents.