I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.

Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.

I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.

I never envisioned what I was doing as part of a career.

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity