Gary Wright

“Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.”

“The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.”

“My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.”

“I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.”

“I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.”

“In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.”

“We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.”

“Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.”

“I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.”

“As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.”

“It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through that period where I didn't have a lot of hits, although people were still buying the records.”

“I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.”

“The more far-out artists, the better.”

“My goal is really to continue to make music. I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music, and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.”

“I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.”

“Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.”

“No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.”

“I always wanted to do something completely different.”

“I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.”

“My voice hasn't changed really very much. I still do all my songs when I perform live and still do them in the original keys. I've been blessed with that ability to retain that.”