Music is a spiritual expression of what's in your heart. Music as a way of getting rich is a pretty new thing, and I often wonder if the mega-bucks glitzy atmosphere is making the quality of music suffer. You have to work really hard to get around that and remember why you're in it in the first place: because you have to be. It's like an addiction. You can't go a day without picking up your guitar. To me, the only commercial goals that are really valid are, 'Boy, I wish I didn't have to go to work. I wish I could do this all the time.'

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

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

My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol.

What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

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.