The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.
If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.

