"I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again."

"Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun."

"I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist."

"Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away."

"Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time."

"I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make."

"Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar."

"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."

"There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were."

"I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old."

"Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs."

"Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are."

"When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome."

"The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that."

"They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette."

"Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart."