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" If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards. "

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" I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish. "

" I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '. "

" My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol. "

" Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam. "

" I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go. "

" Equality implies individuality. "

" Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is. "

" Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be. "

" As long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music. "

" We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever! "

" I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime. "

" We were always a party band and we used to play outside a lot. "

" My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life. "

" When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees. "

" I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal. "

Working Together

" Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family. "

" Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s. "

" I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour. "

" I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar. "

" When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness. "

" Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it's still on a high note. "

" I can't wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that's going to be the exclamation point. "

" Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything. "

" I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot. "

" Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control! "

" I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall. "

" When Phish broke up, I made some comment about how I'm not gonna go around playing 'You Enjoy Myself' for the rest of my life. "

" There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years. "

" Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you. "

" The band feels loose in all the right ways, and it's just so cool looking out and seeing all of these people that I haven't seen in a while. "