We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

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.