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• ‟ To me, a great drummer isn't always about somebody with chops who can shred. A great drummer is someone who is part of a great band.

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• ‟ You can put me in front of any kit, and it is a fun thing to have to adapt. It inspires me to try different things. I like that.

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• ‟ I have so much gratitude that I get to do this for a living and that I actually have fans who come to the shows and buy the records and support me online.

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• ‟ There's been a lot of crossing paths with the Yes camp over the years for me. The first one was when Dream Theater and Yes toured together in 2004, which was a lot of fun.

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• ‟ I guess I did make my name out of my drumming, and I have the big drum sets, and I'm doing all these crazy, odd-time signatures, so, yeah, I guess drumming was very important to what made me popular.

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• ‟ I'd rather be entertained and go to a show and watch a drummer and have somebody that makes me actually smile. So I don't judge drummers based on their technical ability; I judge them based on the overall package and what they bring to the music they're part of.

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• ‟ To me, there's way more to being a good drummer than precision and technique.

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• ‟ I've been asked to write a book several times; I've had several publishers come to me and offer me book deals. Especially right after I left Dream Theater and Avenged Sevenfold, there was a lot of drama going on in my life, so the book companies came at me thirsty for blood and gossip. And I turned down all the deals.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I love when people know me from things other than Dream Theater.

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• ‟ I can't possibly overstate how much influence Rush had on me as a young teenager. I would say from about 1981 to 1987, they were my gods.

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• ‟ With Dream Theater, every creative aspect of the group went through me. I oversaw it all from top to bottom.

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