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.

I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

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

And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.

We just have to be ourselves.

We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.

In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.