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

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 know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.

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.

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.