We're not exactly proud of it. We didn't realise what was going on. In 1979, Perry and rhythm guitarist Brad Whitford quit the band. In 1984, Perry's manager, Tim Collins, persuaded them both to rejoin, and the whole band to go through rehab. While the band were in recovery, they were approached by the fledgling stars of rap, Run DMC, to try recording a hip-hop version of Walk this Way, the libidinous anthem that Aerosmith first recorded in 1975 and whose title came from a catchphrase of Marty Feldman's Igor in Young Frankenstein.
Some people have trouble with the balance of having a home life.
I don't see it as being two separate things. It's part of what fulfils me, having a family, but they know me for what I am. I was doing this long before I met my wife and had the kids. It's like, this is what we do. It's what I was, and always will be.