In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Bob Weir discussed a variety of topics, getting into some of the heroes of his childhood and adulthood, the power and importance of dreams, and why he thinks John Mayer could be the musician who ends up carrying the legacy of the Grateful Dead into the future.

On the topic of heroes, Weir mentions Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, who guested on Weir’s new solo album and who Weir says he has looked up to since he was a teenager. “He’s uncompromising in his dreams and romantic notions. He was a Jewish kid born in Brooklyn who learned to be a bronc rider.” Weir also notes author Joseph Campbell, who has apparently drunk Weir “under the table a few times,” for his “true openness and sensitivity to…the profound fabric of the universe.”

The interview also touched on Weir’s remembrance of Dead bandmates like Jerry Garcia and Pigpen. Weir remembers when Garcia died, he had a dream where his deceased friend “wanted to go ‘down to the river’ and that river was Ganges. So that’s where we took him. I take my dreams quite seriously.”

Weir also recalled one moment in Dead & Company when he had a vision of the future, where fellow guitarist Mayer’s hair had turned gray and the original drummers had been replaced by “two kids.” “It made me realize that if we serve this legacy, it’ll go on and people will teach this in music school in 200 or 300 years,” Weir says. “I saw that trajectory.” On Phil Lesh’s view of the Dead & Company project, Weir says that the bassist “hasn’t weighed in, and I’m not sure what he would make of it. He has a different approach to the music than we’ve developed. I’m not entirely sure he could just plug into Dead & Company seamlessly.”

Read more of the interview here.