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.

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

I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?

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.

Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.

I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer.