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I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much more profitable than records, you spend so much time on the road that it's hard to work on them. And the records get further and further apart.

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.

Over the years, Yes actually made 20 albums of original studio material.

I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.

If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know.

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

It was always important to me that I made a record where I really sang well, and I don't think it's happened yet. There's always a possibility with each album that I might not record again, and I wanted to produce one that I could feel was mine.