William Wyman "Billy" Sherwood (born March 14, 1965, Las Vegas, Nevada) is a musician, record producer, and engineer. Read full biography of Billy Sherwood →
I write on all instruments.
I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.
I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.
I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records.
So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.
So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.
So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now.
We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.
When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.
You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.
So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I... →
I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as professional and as true, so it's just a different... →