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We think Cyclorama - our most recent studio album - is a great record and everyone that has taken the time to listen to agrees with me.
 James Young Styx
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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.
 James Young Styx
					 
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Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.
 James Young Styx
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It's our technology, with their knowledge of the preclinical side and our ability to ultimately go through the regulatory process and manufacture large quantities of vaccine that would make this marriage work.
 James Young Styx
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Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.
 James Young Styx
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In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.
 Dennis DeYoung Styx
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But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.
 James Young Styx
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So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago.
 James Young Styx
					 
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Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.
 James Young Styx
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When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.
 Tommy Shaw Styx
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So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.
 James Young Styx
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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.
 James Young Styx
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There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them.
 Tommy Shaw Styx
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People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.
 James Young Styx
					 
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I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.
 James Young Styx
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Rock and roll is based on pretty boys who look like little girls. The girls love them because they're not threatening. As someone who is dark and kind of hairy and whatever, I said, "I don't have a chance with that." Luckily!
 Chuck Panozzo Styx
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I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.
 James Young Styx
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It's not that I'm anti-religion. I'm anti any religion that doesn't practice the core, which is love.
 Chuck Panozzo Styx
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We're seeing that at the classic rock station in Chicago that they have teenagers and people in their 20s calling in for this music.
 James Young Styx
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On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.
 Tommy Shaw Styx
					 
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Well, this is the federal government, and it has procedures that we go through.
 James Young Styx
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When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.
 Tommy Shaw Styx
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Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.
 Tommy Shaw Styx
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I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.
 Chuck Panozzo Styx
					 
