What A Long Strange Trip It's Been.

I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I Think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little.

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.

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.

There's A Need For A Ritual And For Real Joy And Real Bliss. Real Fun.

You Have To Be Ready, And Also You Have To Discard Notions That Are Fondly Held By A Lot Of Musicians, About Sequences And Notes And About Scales And Musical Systems As A Whole. If You Think Of Music As A Language, The Space Part Is Where You Throw Out All The Syntax.