Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

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

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

I think that's really important, that kids get exposed to music as soon as they can - not necessarily to become musicians, but at least have an outlet. It's an art form that's easily accessible to young ears.

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.