We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.

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.

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

When the going gets tough, the tough get going

Sometimes we encourage someone without even being aware of it. Even the example we set by attending church may encourage someone who is searching for God.

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

The key to success in life is getting up early.

To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.

Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.