You're about to walk on stage and play together for the next few hours so you want to feel connected and make sure that everyone is in the same head space; a good head space.

The style of music that we're playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don't usually get a lot of commercial exposure.

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.

I'm a hopeless tone chaser!I love it and get into the whole thing.

Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.

I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.

I'm realizing this more and more that it's one thing to get involved with your own political beliefs and stand behind you believe in personally.