Quotes from Steven Tyler

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

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

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

Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.

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 think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you'll find out that it's exactly this, it's the willingness to take a risk.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

Love may be the best driving wheel, but anger is a pretty good second.

Dogs have a lot of love.

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.

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.

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.

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

Guitar players never listen to lead singers.

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.

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.