Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun.
As far as like publicity and working with people, I have a lot of knowledge under my belt.
Believe me, there have been times in the past where I said I was clean but I wasn't.
C'mon babe, I've still got the vocal range. I've taken care of my voice.
Certain situations, certain friends have to be avoided to avoid a relapse.
Do I want to be the Monkees? I'm not here for nostalgia.
Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.
Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.
Even then, I was more rock 'n' roll onstage than anything else. I was trying to be Mick Jagger or Rod Stewart.
Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.
Going cold turkey is one thing; going to jail and becoming Bubba's love slave is another.
Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.
How many people can say they were a teen idol and have women throw themselves at you?
I always thought the worst rumor was that people thought I was gay.
I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.
I don't act 40 and I don't look 40. Age is a state of mind, you can stagnate or just continue.
I don't look too different. I just look a little older.
I hate categorizing music. I'd like to think everyone's unique.
I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.
I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.
I have no problem with starting from scratch.
I just didn't like the music and what I was doing.
I just finished doing a couple of stage plays. I've never done stage before and the last one was a musical.
I like being on the road. I grew up on the road.
I like to think our songs have journeys in them.
I raised $10,000 for the New York Firefighters' Widows and Children's fund.
I remember riding out on a white horse to the stage at the Houston Astrodome.
I smoked heroin for six years. Kicking the habit? Hard wasn't the word for it.
I still drink a little, socially. Moderation is the key.
I still have the same waist size I did when I was 18.
I still like to do whatever I can for charities.
I think I've lived a much different lifestyle than most teen idols.
I think my material is reflecting a mellower life. It's less aggressive.
I want to sign the right record deal and be popular.
I was just heavy into addiction and not doing anything.
I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem-I was 14 years old.
I won't be trying to act young. I'll know when to get out instinctively.
I would rather pump gas at 76 than ever have to do something that I don't want to do again.
I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.
I'm not that old yet, although touring is starting to give me gray hairs.
I've always loved Led Zeppelin, so Physical Graffiti was my favorite.
I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.
If people just wanna be hecklers, that's fine. We've never had that problem.
If you're coming to hear any of the disco hits, you won't.
In so many ways, I was cliche in that everything that shouldn't have happened to me happened.
It would be cool to go into space. I would totally dig it.
It's a different tour, it's different songs. I'd call it a mixture of classic and alternative hard rock.
It's harder than I realized to have such an image die and recreate another one.
Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.
Lots of bands appeal to only one kind of audience.
Me, David, Shaun and Andy were the last of the solo idols.
My life has been in the media ever since I could remember.
My life's pretty open and out there, like an open book. I really don't know what I want them to know about me.
My mom was always very clear about things telling it like it is and what it was.
My popularity obviously waned, but people still recognized me on the street all the time.
One of the things in my life I'm extremely hell bent on is communication and speaking the truth.
People are living vicariously through others, to be sure.
People wanted to hear the newer stuff. You grow out of the teen idol stuff.
Some women come to our shows with boyfriends and husbands that wind up REALLY liking us.
Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.
Someone once told me when to worry is when they don't want to know about what you're doing.
Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others.
Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.
The only thing I could try to do was reinvent myself.
The perks of being a teen idol were great. It's always nice to be recognized.
The press package is by far your greatest tool so don't skimp.
The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.
There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.
There are so many rumors and lies surrounding my life. I figure the truth will set you free.
There was a lot of staying up late, a lot of sleeping in.
There were some bad choices that were made that I would have never done. But oh well. What are you gonna do?
There's no time like the present. Do what you want to do, make yourself happy.
There've been some hard times to get through, no doubt, but I can still look back and be happy.
They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.
Those songs weren't even my songs, and the tapes were so overdubbed it didn't even sound like my voice.
To be the marionette for the puppeteers is very fleeting, because you get tired of them.
We're on our fourth guitarist. We just have big ego problems with guitarists.
Whatever your preconceived idea may be, you're wrong.
When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.
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