Explore Quotes by Steven Tyler

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

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.

I love the woods even more than the ocean.

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.

I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.

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

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

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.

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.

Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.

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

Dogs have a lot of love.

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.

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

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

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

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

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