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" I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements. "

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" So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player. "

" I think, basically, the music industry is scattered and in a mess. I think you've got lots of people that are so-called 'experts' that have no idea where it's headed. "

" I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word. "

" I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment. "

" For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at. "

" I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work. "

" I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your Love' by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song. "

" I love to write. It's my first love. "

" I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense. "

" I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician. "

" I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures. "

" With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it. "

" Something happens when you become an elder rock & roller and you're still functioning. People start to give you awards and recognize achievements. It's the life achievement period of your career. "

" First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain. "

" It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question. "

" For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song. "

" Music is all about wanting to be better at it. "

" I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through. "

" I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should. "

" I think jamming is the way we begin to communicate. In the old days, people actually wrote notes on paper and sent them to each other. I guess that's how they jammed. "

" It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume. "

" If I start mining for opinions on hundreds of websites that have fan forums, I'll be totally distorted in my view of myself. I'll lose myself in all that. "

" I guess, we were people who just dedicated to trying to get better. "

" But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing. "