I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.

There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

There are no Jerry Garcias coming down the pike, anymore than there is a Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley. They are all at the same level - the highest level that you strive to get to as a musician. Me and my friends - we'll all be long dead, people will still be trying to dig into what Jerry Garcia did.

Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.