I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.

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

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

I know that the gift that God gave me isn't gonna just wither up and die unless I let it die, so it's a matter of me having the faith that it's gonna come out. Whether or not the public's gonna like it is another story. But I think as long as I keep changing and sticking to what I really love - and the same goes for Steven and the other guys in the band - then people are gonna like it.

I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.

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

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