After I wrote 'The Best Of Times' for my dad and after I completed the '12 Steps Suite' with Dream Theater, I very much felt like I had said everything I wanted to say lyrically.

I really do care what people think, and I revolved my whole career and all the twenty five years with Dream Theater... I ran that band and made decisions based on caring what the fans thought and wanted.

One of the reasons I needed to leave Dream Theater was because I didn't want to end my career as just the drummer in one band.

I don't even like doing drum solos live; to me, it's like, 'Ehhh.' It doesn't really interest me.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Our children need to remember to love each other, how to honor each other, their parents, God, and their neighbors.

Obedience opens the door to the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. And the spiritual gifts and abilities activated by the power of the Holy Ghost enable us to avoid deception - and to see, to feel, to know, to understand, and to remember things as they really are.

I believe change should come from the real leader, who can make a real peace, and his name is God.