They wrote on the synthesizer but they just played strings. Bill was thrilled to finally not be in a band anymore. That was really what he wanted. We are, and have always been, a true democracy. Every person has veto.
Every person has an equal opinion.
Each opinion is heard out. It's a lengthy process. It's difficult some times to live with, but it served us well as a band for 17 years, and it served us well as friends. The reasons that he quit is because he was tired of being in a rock band. He didn't enjoy any more the spark and the desire to go into the studio and work on one song and do this kind of press junket and do videos and go on tour had left.