People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.
I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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.
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
Having done 'Misfits' for three years solid, you become known for doing one thing, so I've wanted to change things up as much as possible with each job.
Before 'Fallen,' I'd written love stories and more love stories. I'd fallen in love with love stories - but they were also beginning to feel just a little bit too insular, too small.
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Unless a role pushes me out of my comfort zone, I don't feel interested at all.
