When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.

But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.

We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic.

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

Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America.

You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.

When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.