I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options.
The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.
I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.
If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.
My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.
A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.
Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.
I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.
I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.
But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded.
It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.
I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.
I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.
I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records.
In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.
Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.
Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.
Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.
Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.
