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..

I'm from the school of putting a lot of hours of practice into playing. But at the same time you have to write original music - that's really importa….

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

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..

Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours..

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. Ev….

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

The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional musician. So it was just the right environment..

When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain. Put the time in. Hear….

I don't have very eclectic tastes in music..

I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the craft needs to do. It's basic practicing o….

I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't h….

Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think that i….

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world..

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 ha….

The good thing about playing this style that we play, you know, the progressive element of it, is that we can add in different elements of different ….

The Majesty guitar symbolizes the very reason why I am so proud to be a Music Man artist. I had the idea for this guitar a couple of years ago but it….

A lot of people around the world were, like, very frustrated, you know "Why don't you just release the name? Why is it taking so long?" But the cool ….

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

If you bring somebody into the band you are going to be with them a lot whether it's in the studio, on the tour bus, or at dinner every night; you wa….

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