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.

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.

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.

And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.

Drop the fear. What you fear most, can be a repeated theme in your life.

The name of the new religion, " said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them.

When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.

I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.

The deepest feelings always show itself in silence.

What's exciting about using our mind is that we can short circuit all the excuses thrown up by our fears.

We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.