Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).

He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.

I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.

I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.

Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.