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I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.

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

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.

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

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

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

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

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

I write on all instruments.

Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the 90125 band without a singer.

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

Don't pay attention to what anyone is telling you about your personal journey just keep going, because that's what it's all about.

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

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

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

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

Everyone is really getting along with each other and we enjoy each others company and love playing live.

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

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

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

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

I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.

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

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now.