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.

We just have to be ourselves.

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.

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

They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.

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

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.