Steven Tyler Quotes

You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap.

It's amazing in the blink of an eye you finally see the light.

I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let's see, I guess that makes me 19.

Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.

If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin Then mister you’re a better man than I

To love and be loved is all we know and all we need to know.

This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.

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

I'm really just a country boy.

Fake it until you make it.

I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.

I'm grateful for the road. It gets me in shape. I feel like I'm 25 years old after ther first or second week.

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

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.

Just saying no to drugs is like just saying cheer up to a manic depressant

Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you.

Now that I'm sober, I deserve to get laid.

We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing

If it shakes you in the right places, it's Gods gift.

Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.

Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.

Good night, everyone- and remember- in this world, if you wanna get ahead, you gotta learn to give a little!

Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are.

I live for CAN-ing other people's can'ts.

What makes me feel good is that after all these years, the ideas that Joe Perry came up with worked and all the kids loved it.

Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.

I ran into Axl [Rose] at a club some year ago and told him he's crazy, we all miss them, and he needs to get the band back together.

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

My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went!

Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified.

I don't buy into the idea that you're not supposed to rock & roll after a certain date. Maybe I should be in Bellevue, but I'm just having a good time.

Everybody loves you because you are brilliantly awkward.

Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?

If they [Guns N' Roses] didn't get back together soon they would have missed their window and no one would have cared in 3 or 4 years.

The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.

In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.

Never judge a book by it's cover or who you're going to love by your lover.

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.

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

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 just want Aerosmith to always give me a hard-on, that's all I ever ask for, for it to be the most special thing in my life. As long as I look at it through those eyes, it will always be that way.

I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.

So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.

I can't live off the ego.

I get the whole thing, I can't talk about it. But they're talking and they got an offer. I hope Axl[Rose] can see the greater picture and not be mad at Duff [McKagan] and Slash.

We can look, but we'd better not touch.

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.

I hate it when people say that they don't like 'MMMBop.' Everyone likes 'MMMBop.' Whether they like it or not, the song rocks.

I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.

I said the same things to Axl [Rose] that everyone said to me when me and Joe Perry were fighting.