Quotes from Gary Wright

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.

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

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.

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

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

The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.

Fly me high through the starry skies or maybe to an astral plane, cross the highways of fantasy, help me to forget today's pain.

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.

By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it.

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

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

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

My career has kind of taken on a life of its own.

As far as a defining moment, that was a hugely successful and very busy time for me. 1975, 1976, 1977 - that whole time frame.

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.

I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.