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

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

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.

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 guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.

Steven and I stood on the stage at the Boston Garden after the Stones had just played there and the stage was still up. We had been playing cards, maybe a high-school dance, to 400 or 500, maybe a thousand. We just stood on the stage and thought, 'Well,man,maybe someday.' In 4 years that was OUR stage.