We're gonna play you some songs we know and some we don't. But we're pretty good at it. We have no set list, no agenda and no fear.

In a town where there are some pretty good writers, he really is our poet laureate.

I see you're wearing glasses. I never saw you play with glasses before.

I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.

Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet.

It's pretty amazing to get a chance to play with some of your living heroes. Playing with Trey, Warren and Bob Weir was a thrill for all of us. You hear all the bull -- out there about these supposedly crazed, egomaniacal rock stars, but that's not the case at all. They were all totally sweet. It was cool to realize that you could look up to them and that your idealized vision of these people, our heroes, wasn't shattered. I think that's pretty rare.