We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.
Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
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.
I think part of what has to happen, somewhere, pretty soon, is that a human template has to come up. We have to start with, OK let's throw out all this other stuff, everything we have thought about it before, throw out all our models, and start with a human. What is a human?
There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works.
You reach into cyberspace and you grab some cyber stuff, build it up, and the computer will give you a 360 of it.
That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language.
Technology didn't just go, clunk. It was this early disease, starting with a plow, I guess, or something like that, the first tool that made it so you could do more things. The first domesticated animal, or the first wheel.
every mind is at least as heavy as mine
I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.
I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.
I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
