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We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.

I think what the story of Yes has been is we've wandered in and out of different styles over the years.

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.

Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.

There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.

I think we're quite unique in that we do have our own sound and approach and we don't really care what's going on elsewhere... we've never wanted to be part of another trend or movement.

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.