Rick Wakeman Quotes

If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.

All the bands get along really well. That's one of the biggest things on a tour. It's great to get all these cool bands together, but if they don't get along it sucks.

I've always viewed Mitt Romney as a very conservative person.

In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

Yes, I always say that we're a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that's, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit.

It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.

I'm a registered conservative.

Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife.

In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting.

I met Barack Obama, I read his book, I like him a great deal. I disagree with him on very fundamental issues.

People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.

It's not politically incorrect to say you're Republican or conservative.

Personally, I'm right of center.

Fleetwood Mac was one big lesson in adaptation for me. There were five very different personalities, and I suppose that made it great for a while.

When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band. Audioslave was great.

I had never met anyone of my own age that was a Tory, so going to university and seeing people who were Tories and who believed in what I believed in was an eye-opener.

You've got to be able to compromise in a band; otherwise, somebody's more important than the next guy, and that's never been the case in Priest.

I was always a right-wing girl as far back as I can remember.

I would always vote for Tory candidates in the United Kingdom, and I would probably be Republican if I was an American.

I'm excited to bring a dose of moderate, rational conservatism to 'The Cycle.'