You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat.

I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.

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

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

Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America.