Steven Tyler

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.

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

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.

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.

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

I'm really just a country boy.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I love the woods even more than the ocean.

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

My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out.

I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.