Quotes from Billy Sherwood

I don't have any assistants, I do it all myself, I don't have any secretaries.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

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.

When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.

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.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.

And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.

I write on all instruments.

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.

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.

So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.

I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records.

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.

I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.

You have to let your music be true and then people who want to adopt it as that, they take it on and they love it, and it changes their world.

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.