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

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

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

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

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

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.

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.