When we came out, the kind of music that was popular was Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains, all that stuff. That was when we released our second album, 'Images And Words', and it was something people werent used to hearing maybe, and it sort of rose above all that somehow, being progressive, or whatever.

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.

Obviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back.

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

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

It's a balance between getting the right string gauge that's thick enough where it sound good, and not rubber bands - but not too thick where your hands start to get real tired.

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.