If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.

She's blonde with all the hits. Taylor Swift. She's hot. More than that, she's beyond talented. I have to write a song with her.

Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.

What makes me feel good is that after all these years, the ideas that Joe Perry came up with worked and all the kids loved it.

I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you'll find out that it's exactly this, it's the willingness to take a risk.

People love Axl [Rose] with the original band, they love him on his own but they want to see him with the original guys.