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.

I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

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

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

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.

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.