In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.

The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like certain writers do. They think about what they are going to write first and then they write it. I just get what comes in at me. It's like I'm a musician and if I can keep my mitt on, I can catch the balls that come at me.

Its cool when I meet young guys from other bands who say how much an impact Aerosmith has had on them and how much they like me.I'll give 'em that 'C'mon you don't mean that' routine, but in my heart I know where they're coming from. If I had grown up in the '70's and was into rock n' roll, I know the kind of impact Aerosmith would have had on me. I know the kind of impact that Elvis and Jagger had on me, and while I'm not comparing myself to those guys, I can relate.

What you don't deal with rules your life.