Quotes from Steven Tyler

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

If you don't have a dream, there is no way to make one come true.

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

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.

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'm really just a country boy.

If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

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

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

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

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

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

Throw your hands up in the air and celebrate life.

When people think of Aerosmith, I want them to think of the music we've made and nothing else. I don't want the responsibility of some young kid trying to live his life like I did back in the '70's.

What you don't deal with rules your life.

Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh.

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.