The World Motivation
When you listen to a Yes album, you should listen to the whole thing through headphones with the lights off.
“When you listen to a Yes album, you should listen to the whole thing through headphones with the lights off.”
— Trevor Rabin · Album
When you listen to a Yes album, you should listen to the whole thing through headphones with the lights off.
When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.
You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.
Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot.
I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.
On my first album some of the songs were written when I was 14 or 15 so your life experience means you change, but my style is similar.
I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it's happening it feels like a roller coaster you can't get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.
When you question who's one of the greatest of all time lyrically... I don't sell a lot of records, but it's all good, man. My first solo album sold over 500,000 copies. And my second album - which I put out independently - sold over six figures as well.
When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.
On every album you can see my growth.