We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada. – Billy Sherwood
I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone’s mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination. – Billy Sherwood
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records. – Billy Sherwood
So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now. – Billy Sherwood
And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals. – Billy Sherwood
When you’re a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person. – Billy Sherwood
It’s an album that is a little bit different and probably isn’t easy to get out. It’s not likely that a major label would have picked it up and said that they had a smash hit record. – Billy Sherwood
You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels. – Billy Sherwood
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 know what I can deliver out of my studio. – Billy Sherwood
I’ve had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don’t have to rent, I don’t get stuck with the bills, it’s all mine. – Billy Sherwood
And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless. – Billy Sherwood
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 flavour, it’s a different sound, but I think both have their place. – Billy Sherwood
I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record… So I was just writing songs. – Billy Sherwood
I wasn’t really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music. – Billy Sherwood
So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy. – Billy Sherwood
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. – Billy Sherwood
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! – Billy Sherwood