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

I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.

When I got sober and started working out, I fell into that trap of working out too much. I know a lot of guys can relate to that - if you don't get that runner's high every day, you feel like, 'Oh my God, I'm losing it.'

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.

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

The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.