You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.
Joe PerryThere are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.
Joe PerrySteven 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.
Joe PerryI don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.
Joe PerryI 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.
Joe Perry