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Dynamic benign neglect.
Our lives are interesting.
Slowly you become your own man.
That's right! The women are smarter!
More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.
The bulk of my input comes from my peers.
Everybody has something to bring to the table.
Be as in touch with your dreams as you can be.
Looking back, I guess I've lived an unusual life.
Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't.
What I like best about music is when time goes away.
The same song on a different day was a different song.
Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.
Both my kids like Adele, and I gotta say, the girl can sing.
The meetings can be a lot of fun or they can be frustrating.
I'm still good for hitting the road. I'll be doing that a fair bit.
Grace isn't enough. You've got to intend to be there when it's happening.
Certain kinds of people just can't live life taking risks with adventure.
We have cultural depth. We get all kinds of stuff to chew on, to live on.
The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.
The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.
Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.
We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.
They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models.
Whatever I'm going to be doing, a lot of it will be furthering this heritage, this legacy.
I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.
I thought being a cowboy would be a terribly romantic thing to do. But it wasn't. I shoveled a lot of stalls.
When we started out, there was so much cash involved that it attracted an element you'd rather not do business with.
I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.
Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.
Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.
We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.
If Trump wins, I think the whole thing is going to blow up, and we're going to start over, and that's always a good thing to do.
If for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you're not going to get everybody's attention.
I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my head from TV, and especially I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my heart from TV.
I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
I have always had a certain aversion to heat. And for me, the name of the game on the stage is 'beat the heat.' It's always July under the lights.
The rule is not written anywhere, it's not etched in any - but, I mean, that's the prevailing attitude of this entire society. Don't have an adventure.
I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I've always believed, if you're gifted, that it's incumbent not to think about giving something back.
That Cornell show that - that people talk about, I can't remember that specifically. It didn't stand out for me on that tour. The whole tour was like that for me.
I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.
The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.
We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.
What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.
I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write books, our best shot is to write children's books, because we relate pretty readily on that level.
Sometimes it's a huge amble, where you're just on top, on the lid, and it's not going anywhere, and sometimes you walk on the stage and from the first note, the afterburner kicks in and you can't stop it.
If you want to promote anything, all the work that you put into it is basically promoting the idea of it so that people will go for it. And if they don't go for it, you can't institute it. You can't do it.
We'd just signed with Arista, the record company. Arista was freaking about the phenomenon of tapers showing up at our shows. They were insisting that we put an end to this. And we just didn't want to do that.
What's changed? I'm a dad. That's fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit. You can watch a bug crawling around for minutes at a time--just sit and marvel at its complexity, the utter bugness of it. I've learned to do that again.
The premise that we're working with is that when most people go to a show, they're not really watching what's going on onstage. They may be watching what's on the screen. But when the songs are playing in their mind's eye, they're actually watching a movie.