Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.

It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip on the local psyche. Tyler is a star who belongs to the whole world, but Perry, that dude belongs to Boston.

Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.