I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.

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 in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.

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

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

The live concerts are still one of the two greatest joys of my life.