And there was a movement afoot to take another year off, and if we had been able to do that, and rethink everything, I think when we came back it would have been very different.

When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.

Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important.

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.

Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.

Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice.

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music.

In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.

Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.

I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in.

Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

And there was a movement afoot to take another year off, and if we had been able to do that, and rethink everything, I think when we came back it would have been very different.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.

And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through the Rex Foundation sponsoring recordings of various music that was being recorded over there.

To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.

We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way.

But we were really locked in to that kind of format, and as the '90s wore on, it became for me more solidified, in that sense that there weren't as many of those magical shows that were just magic all the way through as there had been in earlier years.

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things.

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

Daniel, my big brother, is eight years older. I'm lucky he didn't mind hanging out with his little sister and my younger brother.

I can't ad-lib, or not for long.

A lot of times, people just want to be an individual. But if you really want to win, at the end of the day, it's not about you just achieving something. Everybody can achieve more if they work together.

How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people.

The world is changing so quickly, it's hard to get anything right for long.

Voice acting is very creative, especially 'Star Wars' voice acting, because there's so much you have to imagine.

I don't like pain.

It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.

Let each new year find you a better person.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.

It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.

Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character.

I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.

I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time.

The FBI continues to work with tribes through the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 to help tribal governments better address the unique public safety challenges and disproportionately high rates of violence and victimization in many tribal communities.

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

About six months after I moved to New York City, I was literally down to my last twenty dollars when a friend of mine from college got me a job at an Upper East side gym. I ran the cafe, and I was the janitor. It was an unfortunate combination of duties, to say the least.

I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

What I found was that I thoroughly enjoyed the plumbing of experiment.