 For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song. |
| I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should. |
| There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me. |
| I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician. |
| I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment. |
| I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out. |
| But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing. |
| So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player. |
| With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it. |
| I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH. |
| I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people. |
| Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years. |
| I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements. |
| With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly. |
| It's hard for me to just practice without writing something. |
| I love to write. It's my first love. |
| For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at. |
| Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process. |
| When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off. |
| I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio. |
