In a way, that's always been Yes' history to a large extent! Quite a few occasions when we've had a new band member or change in members, then we've done a new album with new chops and refreshed the musical approach.

The fact I've been in every lineup of Yes has been more by default than design.

I think it was 'Tales of Topographic Oceans' on 8-track that was the funniest thing because it would fade out in the middle of a song and fade back in again, and when the tracks change, it was quite amusing.

Yes is what I like doing more than anything else. Somewhere along the way, as people came and went, it fell to me to kind of keep it going and oversee the spirit of the enterprise, as it were.

[Players such as Brooks, Barber and Quarles make sure every member of the defense chops his share of lumber.] The main word is accountability, ... You have to be accountable because you have Derrick Brooks watching you on film the day after. If you're not doing your job, he'll let you know.

The band will be going along, and somebody or another will say, 'I want to go off and do a solo career.'... They come back, and other people come in.