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

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

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

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.

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.

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.