Kid problems are when you're bummed because girls don't like you or something silly, but then you get older and people start dying and going broke and whatever. People get sick. When you get older these things just happen.

The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

American Suiteheart I must confess Im in love with my own sins

I have always loved David Bowie. When he began to experiment with pop music in the 80's, I really thought there was a really fascinating reverence for it. A lot of people looked at pop music as just idiot music, or dance music, and with this he was giving it a lot of respect.

Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.

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

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.