Steven Tyler Quotes

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

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

I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth.

Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!

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.

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

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

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.

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

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

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

We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing

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

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

Life's a journey, not a destination.

The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.

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.

She's blonde with all the hits. Taylor Swift. She's hot. More than that, she's beyond talented. I have to write a song with her.

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.

The fact that I'm still constantly smiling is a remarkable thing, but I love getting out on the road, meeting my fans. I love hearing them say wonderful things and I love being able to thank them in person for reading me.

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 have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

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.

Guitar players never listen to lead singers.

I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.

People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and kicking ass!' Now it's 'What do you reckon you'll be doing at 60?' and the answer's exactly the same. I'm always going to love Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple Haze' will still give me a hard-on when I'm hooked up to a life-support machine. Hey, even when I'm dead, they're going to have a hell of a job nailing the coffin lid down.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.

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

I guess I am a feminist of sorts. I love women so much, and I celebrate the feminine in me because I appreciate it so much.

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.

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

I don't think anything is forever, but when my kids tell me they love me, that's forever.

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.