"If you're in rock 'n' roll, you're not supposed to admit to liking theatre stuff, but I'm a big theatregoer."
"Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs."
"Styx was always a theatrical band. In fact, we played City Center in 1983 with a rock opera, 'Kilroy Was Here.'"
"I think the music business is as crass and as unrewarding as it has ever been."
"All I ever thought about was music and being a musician."
"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."
"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."
"If you say 'Domo arigato' to people, they're apt to go, 'Mr. Roboto.'"
"I lived at the greatest time in the history of mankind to be a musician."
"I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet."
"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 never wanted to be a solo artist."
"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."
"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."
"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 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 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."
"If there's a goal, you can't stop me. I'll put my head down. I'll have tunnel vision and I'll go until I get it."
