I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.

I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.

I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.

Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.

Most times, the leader’s ornament isn’t the smiles you see on their faces during the time of victory. It is the sweats we don’t see when they were struggling behind the scenes.

[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

We should try to be happy, just to set an example

A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees.

I would rather be right than rigorous.

All variables are independent.

Writing 'This Is Who I Am...' I wanted to write a song about where I'm at, that I have accepted where I have come to and I wanted my fans to be able to connect to it too. I want them to stand proud!