Like a jerk, I went to a nutritionist and I ate the most repulsive, awful things. I didn't allow myself to eat chocolate cake and french fries and cheeseburgers.

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.

We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.

I've always liked Dennis Chambers, he's real flashy.

I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.

Even potted plants got to be a responsibility, like everything else you took care of that couldn't make decisions for itself.

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.

You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.

I got really frustrated in jail, and I was like, 'Man, I love what I've done, and I love the mark I've made on rock n' roll history'... and I sat there, and I got really depressed, thinking, 'I gotta make a move... do something fresh and new.'

I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.

Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time.

So there we were shooting Jack Daniels into our veins, like what the fuck we can just drink it.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

Bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.

Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.

I ain't got no spare/I ain't got no jack/I don't give a shit/I'm not going back

Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your thumbs.

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.