Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America so granted, it is part of our heritage and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.

I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.

Take life on life's terms - one day at a time. And have fun while you're doing it.

Get good live and get a following because that's what people notice.

I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.

I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.

Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.

This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home.

Ideally, we'd want an Irishman coming in for the job, but, ideally it doesn't really matter.

The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.

They say things happen for a reason You don't do them, they won't.

I only just found you, I can't lose you now

The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?