Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history.