Steven Tyler

“I can't live off the ego.”

“Guitar players never listen to lead singers.”

“Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.”

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

“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.”

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

“As you know, I'm androgynous. I can wear a jacket that most guys wouldn't put on. But you make it in guys' sizes, and suddenly they're wearing them. I think styles should get back to getting people to wear things that look so good that they don't care.”

“Fake it until you make it.”

“They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.”

“I love the woods even more than the ocean.”

“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.”

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

“Through song you learn, and I think school systems need to learn that. Through the rhythm you can learn better, through melody, with something you need to learn; it's a vehicle for it.”

“Songwriting is a bitch. And then it has puppies”

“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.”