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

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.

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

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.

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.