If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

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

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

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.