I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.

Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified,

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

Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified. It is attitude. It is all the things that your parents told you not to do. It's the freedom to express yourself. It's being alive. It expresses the times. It's a magazine, a newspaper that tells the truth. If you listen to rap today, it's all about the truth. And that's what we all want. Just give me a little truth.

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.

The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.

But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.