I have to say that our fans have been absolutely wonderful all across the world.

I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.

Jordan Ruddes does [have a home studio], but it's all self-contained. I'll be the only guy with a fully built recording studio. So they'll have to come to me.

Now that we're established and we have a history we know that we can expect people to show up and to have a good time.

I would say the more the better when it is comes to development and marketing. It's actually fun. For some it can be a frustrating thing.

I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.

The C+ amps is vintage at this point, and it definitely has a certain sound to it. I wanted something that was going to keep Dream Theater in more of a current musical landscape, as far as being the producer and producing the type of album I wanted to hear.