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.

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

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.

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

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

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

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