When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.

People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.

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.

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.

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

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

Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.