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.

Get good live and get a following because that's what people notice.

The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that.

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

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

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.

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.