Songs like "Spirit Carries On" really gets the audience moved and on the same page. It's challenging and all so much fun to play.

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 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.

I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.