On his darker, scruffier new image: “That’s who I am today. I don’t think I’m dark. There was a photo of me on the hardcover of Awaken the Giant Within, and I had glued hair and I was pointing with my finger. It was so eighties. I think most people look back at those days with some trauma-I know I do. When I turned 39 or 40, I grew a beard. And it hasn’t really changed in eight or nine years.�?

On reading self-help books: “I’m more of a biography guy. I like to read something real, and the reason self-help has such a bad reputation is because most of it is a pump-up-and most of it, frankly, I don’t have a lot of respect for.�?

There’s more on Tony’s marriage, how spends his down time, what he says to Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong available on www.details.com