Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.

It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

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

That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.