I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs.

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.

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

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

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

Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain. Most of all, it's very enjoyable to express something that you can only hear and not see, which is not bad.

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.