Nobody can beat those songs on 'Abbey Road.'

I don't wanna be a solo artist. I wanna be in Styx.

I could forgive anybody.

I made 'Desert Moon' and when I made those solo albums, I was trying not to be Styx, because I thought, 'That belongs to us.' So, I made different kinds of solo albums that were not dipping my hand back into the magic Styx jar and pulling out all the tricks - because bands, they have tricks, don't they? That's what makes them different.

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?'

Really, the amount of work I do on a project, I will torture myself.

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.

We were together; we were a group; we were a team; we wanted people to love Styx.

After being replaced in Styx, everyone around me encouraged me to try and stop them legally. I just couldn't. It would have been like suing myself and I held out hope they'd ask me back. They toured under the STYX name for a year and a half before I initiated legal action. I didn't sue for money or use of the name. I simply wanted back in the band.

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.

I never wanted to be a solo artist.

To be successful in your life, you have to be convinced in your own mind that you have the ability to accomplish your goals.

I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet.

I lived at the greatest time in the history of mankind to be a musician.

My brother-in-law, Chuck, whom I have known since we were teenagers, is a disabled veteran who was wounded while fighting with the marines in Vietnam. I've been around to observe how the war affected his life and the problems that veterans have, and I knew for a long time that I wanted to write a song about Vietnam.

Over the years, I thought many times about how my life would have changed if I had been drafted and Styx never had happened. Even if I hadn't been wounded or emotionally scarred, it would have changed my whole timetable.

All I ever thought about was music and being a musician.

I think the music business is as crass and as unrewarding as it has ever been.

Styx was always a theatrical band. In fact, we played City Center in 1983 with a rock opera, 'Kilroy Was Here.'

Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.

If you're in rock 'n' roll, you're not supposed to admit to liking theatre stuff, but I'm a big theatregoer.

Originally, AXS TV came to me last year and asked me if I'd be interested in doing an acoustic 'Live from the Grammy Museum' performance. But I was bound and determined to do an electric show with this great band to dispel any notion that I wasn't a 'rock guy' in Styx.

I wear sunglasses almost all the time except when I'm on stage.

There are no electric guitars. 'Hunchback' has arias; it's operatic.