William Wyman "Billy" Sherwood (born March 14, 1965, Las Vegas, Nevada) is an American musician, record producer, and engineer.
I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.
You have to let your music be true and then people who want to adopt it as that, they take it on and they love it, and it changes their world.
I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.
You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.
I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.
I've been trying to make records and I describe it almost like a "movie for your ears" where it's a little unconventional in its shape and form, but there's something that's intriguing in keeping you wanting to wait and see the next frame of film, except in here what's coming around the corner for your ears.
Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own music, and be totally true to your art. Because it's kind of a selfish thing to be an artist.
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 go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!
We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.
So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started working on it. Working a little bit at a time, it actually took almost four years.
So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.
Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the 90125 band without a singer.
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
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.