What makes me feel good is that after all these years, the ideas that Joe Perry came up with worked and all the kids loved it.
A lot of bands have managed to borrow parts of our style for their music. That’s fine with me, because we’ve borrowed from people like the Stones. But we don’t want to sound like we’re copying anyone, including ourselves, so we’re moving on.
I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.
In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one!
What you don’t deal with rules your life.
Never judge a book by it’s cover or who you’re going to love by your lover.
Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don’t realize how important music is to kids.
It’s amazing, when the moment arrives that you know you’ll be alright.
Just saying no to drugs is like just saying cheer up to a manic depressant.
Now that I’m sober, I deserve to get laid.
In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I’m that good.
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.
I remember the first guy who offered me a joint in the bathroom. I said ‘No, man, I’ve got enough problems.’
I have a big ego, but I don’t buy into it. I can’t live off the ego. It’s an honor that I get to be that guy onstage. It’s not something I earned.
Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.
I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.
I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.
She’s blonde with all the hits. Taylor Swift. She’s hot. More than that, she’s beyond talented. I have to write a song with her.
It’s amazing in the blink of an eye you finally see the light.
We can look, but we’d better not touch.