Billy Sherwood

When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.

— Billy Sherwood

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

— Billy Sherwood

I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.

— Billy Sherwood

I've been trying to make records and I describe it almost like a "movie for your ears" where it's a little unconventional…

— Billy Sherwood

Don't pay attention to what anyone is telling you about your personal journey just keep going, because that's what it's all about.

— Billy Sherwood

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

— Billy Sherwood

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

— Billy Sherwood

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could…

— Billy Sherwood

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

— Billy Sherwood

So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and…

— Billy Sherwood

I write on all instruments.

— Billy Sherwood

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.

— Billy Sherwood

It's an album that is a little bit different and probably isn't easy to get out. It's not likely that a major…

— Billy Sherwood

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

— Billy Sherwood

Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the…

— Billy Sherwood

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

— Billy Sherwood

I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as professional and…

— Billy Sherwood

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

— Billy Sherwood

I don't have any assistants, I do it all myself, I don't have any secretaries.

— Billy Sherwood

I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records.

— Billy Sherwood

I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have…

— Billy Sherwood

So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.

— Billy Sherwood

You have to let your music be true and then people who want to adopt it as that, they take it on…

— Billy Sherwood

I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.

— Billy Sherwood

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.

— Billy Sherwood