About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

Has success ruined the Grateful Dead? Yeah.

We're like bad architecture and old whores. Eventually you become respectable.

I'm not Beethoven!

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Either we stay at home and become pillars of the community or we go out and tour. We couldn't really find any communities that still needed pillars.