I like being on a team and that's what a band is like. It's us against them, strength in numbers, and sharing the success and failure.
We were together; we were a group; we were a team; we wanted people to love Styx.
I formulated the theme behind 'The Grand Illusion' album after observing how American culture creates illusions through advertising and entertainment to convince us that our lives our lacking, in order to sell products.
Really, the amount of work I do on a project, I will torture myself.
I've tried to figure out ways to be less pleased other than the search for perfection. Talk about a thing that'll make you have a miserable life. On that quest, on that journey, down that path, there's a lot of feelings of, 'Why am I doing all this?'
I could forgive anybody.
I don't wanna be a solo artist. I wanna be in Styx.
Nobody can beat those songs on 'Abbey Road.'
If you want your rock stars that are completely 100 percent serious about themselves and you want them to pretend like they're 25, I'm probably not the guy for that. But if you want to come and say, 'Hey, you know that guy right there, he's just being himself. I kind of like him for that,' you know, then that's me.
Radio stations provided a service. They weeded out the stuff that no one should ever have to even think about. Now, they made mistakes and they made mistakes with me even but, by and large, they provided a service. They were an editor.
Heck, I feel guilty getting my senior discounts.
When the Beatles broke up, I thought to myself, 'Dude, seriously?'
The Beatles are here, and if you could see me my hand is on the ceiling. Styx is here, and my hand is in the basement.
I gave my life for Styx and I'm really very proud of it and I didn't want to perform that music and screw it up.
It's always best when everyone in the group is on the same page.
There is one thing in this world that I'm better that than anyone else and that is being me.
We came along at a time when people were really focused on music. We were part of the second generation of bands after all of those great 60's bands when rock was still in its' infancy.
I was lucky by birth.
When I'm onstage the joy is to try to be the best I can be, I'm there because I want it to be perfect.
It's a good job when you get to have fans come up to you and thank you for writing your songs.
