Steven Tyler Quotes

Sex, drugs, and rock `n` roll... take out the drugs and you`ve got more time for the other two.

Once I`d tapped into the insanity, the song wrote itself.

I have always said I would rather grow up wrong than being right in someone else`s eyes.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I`m really just a country boy.

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

The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first.

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.

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.

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.

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

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

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.

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.

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

(On why he became sober) "Liv is possibly the biggest reason for me changing the way I lived. She is a dream daughter. When she was very young I wasn`t sure whether I was the father but, by the time she was eight, I knew for sure. I saw my features in hers and I cried. I started seeing her a lot and I think her mother had alluded to the fact I was her dad. I just said to her, `Liv, there`s something I want to tell you. I`m your Daddy.` It was one of the most emotional moments of my life and I just stood there crying like a baby while she shouted, `I knew it, I knew it.` I love her more than anything and have a great relationship with her. We can talk about anything."

Life`s a journey, not a destination.

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.

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

Fake it until you make it.

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.

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

Oddly enough, it`s what we started out as, it`s what we always have been, and it`s almost like Aerosmith is that band in the closet.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.