Music is all about wanting to be better at it.
If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.
I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.
The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.
There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
My music is jazz.
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.