I love the farm, I love growing stuff.

I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.

I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.

I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.

I am just a guy who plays drums.

I mean, we just started, it's a new thing. We're doing this for fun and we're going to see where it goes.

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

If you can deceive the Devil, you can no longer call yourself as human!

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns - you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!

Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.

We have a very good head thing but we don't make love.

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.