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.

We just have to be ourselves.

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

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

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

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.