Quotes By Steven Tyler

I can't live off the ego.

We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.

I love the woods even more than the ocean.

But you've reached them, and I've always wanted to reach people. I'm the first one to say I love my fans because they love that I took a chance.

Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out.

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.

I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.

Dogs have a lot of love.

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.

It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.

Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.

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.

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.

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

Guitar players never listen to lead singers.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

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.

Fake it until you make it.

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 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.

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.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

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

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.