A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.

Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are.

Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.

I just want Aerosmith to always give me a hard-on, that's all I ever ask for, for it to be the most special thing in my life. As long as I look at it through those eyes, it will always be that way.

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

Fake it until you make it.

I've got scarves and boots from' 1970 that I still wear.