The Japanese Are Hard To Figure Out.

You Do Not Merely Want To Be Considered Just The Best Of The Best. You Want To Be Considered The Only One Who Does What You Do.

We Are Experiencing A Real Confusion Here In The United States, You Know. Why Is It Ok To Drink, But It's Not Ok To Take Drugs? Blah, Blah, Blah. What's A Crime? What's Criminality? What Can You Do, What Can't You Do, And So Forth. All These Things Are Really Confusing. A Lot Of It Is Really Contradictory; It Doesn't Really Make Sense.

What We're Thinking About Is A Peaceful Planet. We're Not Thinking About Anything Else. We're Not Thinking About Any Kind Of Power. We're Not Thinking About Any Kind Of Struggles. We're Not Thinking About Revolution Or War Or Any Of That. That's Not What We Want. Nobody Wants To Get Hurt. Nobody Wants To Hurt Anybody. We Would All Like To Be Able To Live An Uncluttered Life. A Simple Life, A Good Life. And Think About Moving The Whole Human Race Ahead A Step, Or A Few Steps.

We Didn't Invent The Grateful Dead, The Crowd Invented The Grateful Dead. We Were Just In Line To See What Was Going To Happen.

We're Like Licorice. Not Everybody Likes Licorice, But The People Who Like Licorice Really Like Licorice.