It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.

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.

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.

The travel is a lot uglier than it once was with TSA and the deregulation of the airline services. These planes are getting smaller for my 6" 2' frame.

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.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.