Trey Anastasio

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

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

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

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.

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

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

It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.

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

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

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

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