The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n roll thing going on.

There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

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.

The Beatles did everything long before anyone else. They weren't afraid to try things and to experiment with a lot of sounds. In 200 years, when you look up 'rock and roll' in the dictionary, it'll have a picture of the Beatles next to it.

There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.

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