Pastoral Resources

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.

Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics.

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.

We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.

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

And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.