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

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

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'm a good collaborative writer. I can usually come in and add a couple lines to something, and add a riff or a B-section, or a bridge that will tie things together. I can do stuff like that. But to write a whole song, I don't have the patience for that, I guess.

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

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'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them.