The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.

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

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.