So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

... We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it out, see what these guys do.' They take one chord, the tonic chord, and just play all over it. 'We can do that too!' I wanted to make our music something really amazing - I wanted it to be jaw-dropping and turn on a dime and do all of those things that I knew music could do, and nobody told us we couldn't do it. I shouldn't say 'I,' though - Jerry Garcia was behind it the whole way.

To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.

In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.