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

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

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.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.

We just have to be ourselves.