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.

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.

Songs come alive every night and can be a new experience for someone. You might have someone in the audience who has never seen us before and hearing it for the first time. We are aware of that.

We used to rehearse and that's where the roots of Dream Theater formed. Y'know, we used to play cover songs and jam to [Iron] Maiden and stuff but we were writing songs and it was this metal, loud style and we'd constantly get knocks on our door, because the rehearsal rooms were right next door to each other, and these jazz guys would be like, "Can you guys turn it down a little?"

We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the album.

Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.

You try to play the song better than you had before.