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

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.

Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours.

Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had a guitar strapped to their back.

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.

...with electronic communication, what one writes in a moment, eternity will not erase.

The mind always found its way back to baseline.

Infatuation burns itself out, ' she says. 'Friendship mixed with old chemistry--that can last a lifetime.

…he didn’t needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear.

There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

Pay no attention to the less courageous.

Set up a life you don't need to escape from.