Steven Tyler
NeTi I-I-
NeTi I-I- Directive
Tyler: "If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing."
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."
Tyler: "Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new."
Tyler: "Through song you learn, and I think school systems need to learn that. Through the rhythm you can learn better, through melody, with something you need to learn; it's a vehicle for it."
Tyler: "Maybe life is random, but I doubt it."
Tyler: "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."
Tyler: "It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band."
Tyler: "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."
Tyler: "I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS."
Tyler: "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."
Tyler: "Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us."
Tyler: "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."
Tyler: "You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap."
Tyler: "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."
Tyler: "Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it."