Quotes from James Young

I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.

So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago.

I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.

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.

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

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

People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.

There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

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.

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.

People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

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.

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

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.

The live concerts are still one of the two greatest joys of my life.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.

So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.

Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.