I Am Excited To Get

Music Is A Spiritual Expression Of What's In Your Heart. Music As A Way Of Getting Rich Is A Pretty New Thing, And I Often Wonder If The Mega-bucks Glitzy Atmosphere Is Making The Quality Of Music Suffer. You Have To Work Really Hard To Get Around That And Remember Why You're In It In The First Place: Because You Have To Be. It's Like An Addiction. You Can't Go A Day Without Picking Up Your Guitar. To Me, The Only Commercial Goals That Are Really Valid Are, 'boy, I Wish I Didn't Have To Go To Work. I Wish I Could Do This All The Time.'

I've Been Sober For Two-and-a-half Years, My Children Are Happy. In August, My Wife And I Will Celebrate Our Fifteenth Wedding Anniversary. My Band Is Back Together With A Sold-out Tour.

There Are No Jerry Garcias Coming Down The Pike, Anymore Than There Is A Jimi Hendrix Or Bob Marley. They Are All At The Same Level - The Highest Level That You Strive To Get To As A Musician. Me And My Friends - We'll All Be Long Dead, People Will Still Be Trying To Dig Into What Jerry Garcia Did.

Swing Will Never Sound As Good As It Did In The '40s.

I've Learned That In The Theater The Story Is Everything. Every Lyric, Every Line And Every Musical Gesture Has To Propel The Journey Of A Given Character Or The Overall Plot.