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If you're buying an album because of the face on it, you're stupid.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

People are getting away from the whole album experience, it's true. I think that's sad. Maybe I'm just saying that because I'm an old fart. But I can't help it - albums are what I grew up with, and I still love them.

To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way.

The first album was a very successful record. It made me very visible and it's an immediate association, but I don't do that anymore. Now I'm true to myself as an artist again. I'm more vocally oriented.

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

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

I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.

It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.