We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.

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.

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.

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.

People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.

Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.