When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol.

If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try to stay alive, and offer him some meat!

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

There are no Jerry Garcias coming down the pike, anymore than there is a Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley. They are all at the same level - the highest level that you strive to get to as a musician. Me and my friends - we'll all be long dead, people will still be trying to dig into what Jerry Garcia did.

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

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.