Paul Kantner

Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.