A biography for Steven Tylerhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.”
“Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.”
“I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.”
“I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.”
“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.”
“I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.”
“It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.”
“Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.”
“I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.”
“Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.”
“I have a big ego, but I don't buy into it. I can't live off the ego. It's an honor that I get to be that guy onstage. It's not something I earned.”
“I've got scarves and boots from' 1970 that I still wear.”
“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.”
“Dogs have a lot of love.”
“The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.”
“Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.”
“You'd be surprised how expensive it costs to look this cheap.”
“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.”
“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.”