 And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up. |
| I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material. |
| For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. |
| I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional. |
| I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die. |
| America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think. |
| The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us. |
| I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully. |
| I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs. |
| The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst. |
| But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin. |
| Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience. |
| I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come. |
| And the live show is still our main thing. |
| Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace. |
| I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like. |
| Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. |
| And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem. |
| So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody. |
| What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place. |
