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

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

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.

Let me make this radiantly clear—if you believe in spirits and the metaphysical world, your biology will create the illusion that these things are real.

Live like you want to, not how anyone else wants you to.

I couldn't see anything beyond this. Beyond her. Beyond us. (Blaine)

I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set.

People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.'

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.

Make the opponents' goal more expensive than it's worth.

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.