If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.

I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.

The magic of everyday life is the sacred moment.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one check your pulse. You may be dead.

One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.

[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

If we keep everything in balance, we are in harmony with ourselves and are at peace.

Nowadays anyone can show their art to anybody via the Internet.

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.

I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.

We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.