"The best thing about starting with Marcel and meeting him during the Yngwie era was that he was not close-minded; however, musically, he wasn't really into R&B, soul, or anything outside the rock genre. My influences, combined with what we listened to while writing and touring, opened his musical encyclopedia in terms of what he wanted to do. You could hear that in future songs. By the time we got to the 'Humanimal' album, we had already done 'Colour My XTC', which was funky, and that wasn't the TALISMAN sound we had when we started. You could hear the evolution from that point."