 Everyone is really getting along with each other and we enjoy each others company and love playing live. |
| I write on all instruments. |
| I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic. |
| I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music. |
| I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records. |
| And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals. |
| Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio. |
| So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio. |
| It's an album that is a little bit different and probably isn't easy to get out. It's not likely that a major label would have picked it up and said that they had a smash hit record. |
| We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada. |
| I have always enjoyed different kinds of music. |
| So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well. |
| I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other. |
| I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy. |
| So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy. |
| I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes. |
| And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless. |
| So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now. |
| You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels. |
| So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started working on it. Working a little bit at a time, it actually took almost four years. |
