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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.

Even the two times that I left, I never really felt like I left the band. It's very bizarre. It's like there's sort of an umbilical cord that stretches between us spiritually.

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

We all enjoy the band and what we're doing, but we know this isn't gonna last forever.

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

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.

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!

Sadly, I've seen a lot of bands hit that sort of peak and then eventually start supporting again, you know, which we will never do. We always put a lot of thought into the way that we are going to go, and we always change.

We used to really feel like the band was our family.

The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.