Quotes from Steven Tyler

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.

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.

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.

Everybody loves you because you are brilliantly awkward.

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

I love the woods even more than the ocean.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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

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.

People love Axl [Rose] with the original band, they love him on his own but they want to see him with the original guys.

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

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

I love every bone in a woman's body, especially mine.

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

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

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.

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

Fake it until you make it.