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

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

Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America.

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

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.

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.

People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.

Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.

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

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

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

You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat.

I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

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.

When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.

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

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.

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

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

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

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

Our goals, our dreams and ambitions have always been towards performing live music across the globe, and so when we were told we were performing at The Billboard Awards or being nominated for a VMA, they're like extra bonuses.

My mother is quite a woman. She would push me, and when I got tired of her pushing, I'd say: 'Leave me alone. Don't push so much.'

I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

People are really stuck on their ideas about themselves.

I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.

I love to dance and dance all night long.

Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees.

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.

Water sustains all.

I've reached a point where I feel the only asset I have confidence in is gold.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Because I had my family, I felt like I could be a bird and fly and experience and do. Because I had roots somewhere, I knew that they would love me no matter what, and I could always go back home and they were going to love me.

Never leave anything out to dry as the sun comes up for the new year.

Liberals are good at catchphrases, but there's no substance behind them.

I believe there's a job in the fish factory for me. That's enough to get me through every audition.

The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.

If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

In the United States, nobody needs to remind people of their own role or their own power in creating the future they want to see. Perhaps it is something that is almost written into your cultural DNA: a desire to answer your Founding Fathers' call to create a 'more perfect union.'

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.

In the courtroom of science, if you have the facts on your side, you don't need a gun - and juries would be well advised to distrust the case of those parties who choose to use weapons to silence adversarial witnesses.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.