Steven Tyler
I think it takes a little bit of crazy to make a difference in this world.Collection: Crazy
What you don't deal with rules your life.Collection: Deals
Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.Collection: Bugs
Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.Collection: Sex
I love every bone in a woman's body, especially mine.Collection: Body
Life's a journey, not a destination.Collection: Life
... if you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you. Or you'll be way ahead of everybody else. And if that's what you're in it for, then you gotta take that risk.Collection: Two
I know why we're here. We're all here because we're not all there.Collection: Alcoholics Anonymous
It's amazing, when the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright.Collection: Moments
I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth.Collection: Mouths
Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you.Collection: Fake
Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.Collection: Humor
Throw your hands up in the air and celebrate life.Collection: Air
But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.Collection: Night
I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.Collection: Confidence
Guns 'N' Roses music was part of the fabric of all people.Collection: Gun
I said the same things to Axl [Rose] that everyone said to me when me and Joe Perry were fighting.Collection: Fighting
People love Axl [Rose] with the original band, they love him on his own but they want to see him with the original guys.Collection: People
I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about.Collection: Band
I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Appreciate
Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears.Collection: Laughter
The fact that I'm still constantly smiling is a remarkable thing, but I love getting out on the road, meeting my fans. I love hearing them say wonderful things and I love being able to thank them in person for reading me.Collection: Reading
The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.Collection: Crow
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.Collection: Rocks
Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified.Collection: Rocks
Good night, everyone- and remember- in this world, if you wanna get ahead, you gotta learn to give a little!Collection: Good Night
A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.Collection: Country
You know...sometimes I'll be looking out at the audience and I'll be in the middle of a song, and I'll just stop dead. I'll look out at them, and think what is this... There's one thing that keeps me doing it though, I really love it, I believe in it.Collection: Song
The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like certain writers do. They think about what they are going to write first and then they write it. I just get what comes in at me. It's like I'm a musician and if I can keep my mitt on, I can catch the balls that come at me.Collection: Song
A lot of bands have managed to borrow parts of our style for their music. That's fine with me, because we've borrowed from people like the Stones. But we don't want to sound like we're copying anyone, including ourselves, so we're moving on.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Kids
I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds and when we call forth those memories, we are essentially filling in the blanks. We're basically telling ourselves a story, but that story changes based on how old we are, and what mood we're in, and if we've seen photographs recently. We trust other people to tell us the story of our lives before we can remember it, and usually that's our parents and usually it works, but obviously not always. And everybody's interpretation is going to be different.Collection: Couple
People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and kicking ass!' Now it's 'What do you reckon you'll be doing at 60?' and the answer's exactly the same. I'm always going to love Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple Haze' will still give me a hard-on when I'm hooked up to a life-support machine. Hey, even when I'm dead, they're going to have a hell of a job nailing the coffin lid down.Collection: Jobs
The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.Collection: Rocks
This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.Collection: Party
I live for CAN-ing other people's can'ts.Collection: People
I'll tell you what's fun - finding the right stewardess and turning her upside down in the back of a plane.Collection: Fun
Kurt Cobain, when he did his videos, you look into his eyes and he couldn't even face the camera; he was in pain and I'm angry about Kurt. This guy didn't have to die.Collection: Pain
Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.Collection: Play
It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.Collection: Coffins
Just saying no to drugs is like just saying cheer up to a manic depressantCollection: Cheer
I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let's see, I guess that makes me 19.Collection: Drug
Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!Collection: Thinking
Everybody loves you because you are brilliantly awkward.Collection: Love You
It's amazing in the blink of an eye you finally see the light.Collection: Eye
If it shakes you in the right places, it's Gods gift.Collection: Shakes