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Coming back to Yes is like never having left. Even when I have not been in the band, I have always felt part of it.

When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

I slowly started to drift back into music again. I finally got the call from John... about getting the band back together again. It was so out of the blue. I almost thought that the moment had passed.

When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.