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We've done very different Yes albums - 11 bars, 13. I think we had something that had 17/4 in it. It's just like anything - the more you do it, the more you have to do it.

I spent a lot of time between bars like this.

It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique.

I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.