I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

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.

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

A lot of people don't listen to the albums. They just listen to the singles.

I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

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