And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.
Everyone is really getting along with each other and we enjoy each others company and love playing live.
I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as professional and as true, so it's just a different flavour, it's a different sound, but I think both have their place.
I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.
I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.
I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.
I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.
I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.
So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now.
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.
We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.
When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.
I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.