I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

It seems the activity of expressing sound to do with music has just started blooming - and because of that, the beginners feel like they're professionals, and the professionals feel like they are beginners, which is very healthy.

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

I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies.

I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.

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