In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Trey Anastasio chronicles his month-long stay in quarantine, which includes meditation, plenty of music and walking “15,000 steps a day” alongside his wife in their Manhattan apartment.

“Often times, we end up with something really magical,” Anastasio says of his extensive musical output during the pandemic. “I’m not going to say our songs are magical, but I often have an emotional agenda, and sometimes the combo of thoughts kind of merge together, and one-plus-one ends up making three.”

Anastasio also discusses Phish’s Sigma Oasis LP, which they dropped on April 1 (“I get sort of little chills about how much [the lyrics] aligned with the way things turned out.”) and his onstage persona (“Honestly, sometimes I think I manifest as Mr. Smiley-Happy Guy, except when I’m playing the guitar. When I’m playing the guitar, I don’t have to hide behind anything, and sometimes it gets really dark and scary.”)

Later, he hints at the band’s – presumably canceled or rescheduled – summer tour, noting, “It’s a lot of drama around taking a giant touring operation and just stopping it. It’s not a simple thing at all.”

However, he’s sure to add, “I love those Phish concerts, and I can’t wait for them to come back. But my generalized feeling is that here we are today. This is where we are. I just get up, and it’s time to make music here then, I guess… Hopefully someone will come up with some kind of vaccine and we can tour, that would be my favorite outcome.”

Read the full interview here.