Gary Wright

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

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

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.

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

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

I always wanted to do something completely different.

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

The more far-out artists, the better.

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

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.