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

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.

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.

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.

And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.

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.

We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.

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

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

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.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Forgiveness is empowering for the forgiver. Years of resentment, frustration, and pain are set FREE!

She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

No matter who wins, God is still sovereign regardless if my preferred candidate wins or not.

An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash.

Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune.

When you enter the voting booth, don't leave your Christianity in the parking lot.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.