We just have to be ourselves.

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.

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

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

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 take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.