Steven Tyler
Steven Tyler
Steven Tyleris an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and former television music competition judge, best known as the lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, in which he also plays the harmonica, and occasional piano and percussion. He is known as the "Demon of Screamin'" due to his high screams and his wide vocal range. He is also known for his on-stage acrobatics. During his high-energy performances, Tyler usually dresses in bright, colorful outfits with his trademark scarves hanging from his...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth26 March 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about.
In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.
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.
It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.
Never judge a book by it's cover or who you're going to love by your lover.
In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.
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.
Life's a journey, not a destination.
Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!
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.
I remember the first guy who offered me a joint in the bathroom. I said 'No, man, I've got enough problems.'
Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.
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.