The travel is a lot uglier than it once was with TSA and the deregulation of the airline services. These planes are getting smaller for my 6" 2' frame.

In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.

I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

If there were something that Mother Nature or God could do with money, She or He would have sold immortality to the rich a long time ago.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

I enjoy cooking for people I am close to.

When people throw shade, shine brighter!

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over.

There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.