Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.

Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't. And clearly the ones who wrote music were more superior human beings in his mind. So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.