The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.

I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

I don't think anything is forever, but when my kids tell me they love me, that's forever.

There's nothing like an Aerosmith groove

But you've reached them, and I've always wanted to reach people. I'm the first one to say I love my fans because they love that I took a chance.

In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.