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.

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.

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.

Trust is a thing you know without words.

It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other.

I wasn't wattching television when I was a youngster; there was the radio.

I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.

Water seeks its own level and water rises collectively

Surfers are members of a different race of people from the man in the street

There is something far more important than your present situation - your dream and your goal.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.