I Mean, Whatever Kills You Kills You,

What Is Life But Being Conscious? And Good And Evil Are Manifestations Of Consciousness. If You Reject One, You're Not Getting The Whole Thing That's There To Be Had.

The World That You Can Go Walk Outside And Walk Around The Block. That's Reality. The Reality That's Being Talked About Is Something Else Entirely.

Music Goes Way Back Before Language Does. And Music Is Like The Key To A Whole Spiritual Existence Which This Society Doesn't Even Talk About. We Know It's There. The Grateful Dead Plays At Religious Services Essentially. We Play At The Religious Services Of The New Age. Everybody Gets High, And That's What It's All About Really. Getting High Is A Lot More Real Than Listening To A Politician. You Can Think That Getting High Actually Did Happen - That You Danced, And Got Sweaty, And Carried On. It Really Did Happen. I Know When It Happens. I Know It When It Happens Every Time.

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.

In Folk Music, I've Always Been Fond Of The Fragment. The Song That Has One Verse. And You Don't Know Anything About The Characters, You Don't Know What They're Doing, But They're Doing Something Important. I Love That. I'm Really A Sucker For That Kind Of Song.