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

If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.

Oh, this is a dear diary moment....

I don't care who stays here, as long as they realize, ... If folks can live with that, that's great.

Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had back in the Seventies. But I've come around. Ballads have become something of an acquired taste.

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.