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"The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence."
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"I never listened to country music growing up."

"Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries."

"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."

"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."
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"Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things."

"Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her."

"I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music."

"Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America."

"I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better."

"You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat."

"I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands."

"I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?"
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