Quotes from Dennis DeYoung

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.

When I went out and started making solo records, I was determined not to, I guess, put my name on an album that sounded like Styx. I wanted to carve my own niche, so quite frankly I went in a different direction.

When it came time to do 'One Hundred Years' I had been encouraged to really make a Styx album without the guys. I gave myself permission to do that. I set out to get people who sang with me who could make those harmonies.

Nobody can beat those songs on 'Abbey Road.'

There is one thing in this world that I'm better that than anyone else and that is being me.

If you say 'Domo arigato' to people, they're apt to go, 'Mr. Roboto.'

Nobody can figure out why it does what it does to human beings. But there is no other art form greater than music.

When we started, there were no other distractions like the Internet and video games, so music was central to young people's lives.

My views are simple. If you're gonna make a commitment, particularly marriage, stick to it. If you can't compromise, you've got no chance.

101 Dalmatians' espouses virtues good to revisit: In times of crisis, families must pull together through love and commitment to overcome obstacles.

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.

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

I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet.

People always ask me: How are you? I say I'm the envy of millions. I've been a lucky guy.

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