“Styx was always a theatrical band. In fact, we played City Center in 1...” — Dennis DeYoung Quote

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

Look, nobody is a bigger fan of Tommy Shaw than me. The day I met him in 1975 I knew he was going to be a great guitar player, performer and songwriter. I was his biggest fan, and I'm Styx's number one fan.

I always say, when I play the first few notes and people scream... if you're tired of that, you should try retail. What else are you looking for?

I just believed in 1979 that prog rock was finished. I just saw the handwriting on the wall. And I believed that if we continued in that direction, our career would be finished. So I kind of led the band to making 'Cornerstone,' which is an album from my point of view which was not trying to be necessarily softer, but more natural.

I was an acting opera singer, and that's one of the reasons I left opera.

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

It's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.

I think the power of opera has been shifted from the music to the director, because this is a very visual age that we live in.

To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.