Quotes By Steven Tyler

My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.

Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh.

Guitar players never listen to lead singers.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out.

Fake it until you make it.

I don't think anything is forever, but when my kids tell me they love me, that's forever.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.

Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.

If you take all that I've learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that into a song, not only are you using the gifts that God gave you, but also all the experiences you've had.

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.

It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

I've got scarves and boots from' 1970 that I still wear.

As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

I'm really just a country boy.

I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you'll find out that it's exactly this, it's the willingness to take a risk.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

I can't live off the ego.

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.