We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic.

I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?

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

You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.

But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.

Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.

When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.

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

Where were living we have a certain amount of our profit every year its like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.

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.

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

We can only teach what we have learned

A man whose strength gives out collapses along the course. In your case you set the limits beforehand.

There is nothing like the whites of someone’s eyes to convince you how very true what you believe is, how very much you must act on it.

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

You can go to hell -- I'm going to Texas.

I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?