What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

I have three young kids and a great family. I love hanging out with them more than anything.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

With the Neal Morse Band, we're doing progressive music with a harder edge; it's a little more in Dream Theater territory for me. Flying Colors is a little more poppy, it's more Radiohead, Muse, and Coldplay territory, so I approach that drumming in a different way.

I moved to New York and went to art school at Parsons School of Design. Became a photographer. Became a creative consultant.

My ambition was always to bag a lead role in a film, and hence, I refrained from doing any ads, TV serials, music videos, as I felt that a fresh face always works much better. It was a gamble, and I took that gamble telling myself that I will give it my all to bag a lead role.