I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play together.

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

I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art.

There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.

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

It's probably listening to country music that got me to start playing a lot cleaner, not as distorted.

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