- Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong.
- I hate having to read the manual.
- There was a period at the start of the '80s where digital technology was very expensive and only a few people had it. I was one of the few people that had it.
- A lot of '80s bands just seemed to arrive fully formed. They hadn't put in years on the road the way that '60s and '70s bands had to, because they'd get a record deal, and so a lot of them couldn't really play very well. And that was one of the problems at the start. And also, with all of the new technical stuff, how to take it on stage was really hard. Now it's absolutely no problem, people deal with it all the time.
- I made some of the first what people would regard as modern records because I had an idea in the early '80s of what a modern record should be. I was the first person with all of this technology and I suppose I was a bit of a cheat too because I was actually quite an experienced musician. A lot of the other people that were around were really new to it and you could tell.
- The studio was really the exciting place to be because it was all changing. Everything was changing and you could feel it. You could feel it right at the end of the '70s that there was a big revolution coming.
- That's one of the things that I admired Sex Pistols and The Clash for, not for their musicianship but for their lack of fear.
- The Human League were kind of a perfect example of a band that started out being very radical and arty and suddenly decided to go mainstream and they did it so brilliantly.
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