"Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are."
Steven Tyler, Aerosmith's vocalist, on fame

"Steven knew how to keep things tight. We didn't have a clue about discipline, For us the whole thing was about the feel. So we needed each other."
Joe Perry, Aerosmith guitarist, on Steven Tyler

"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."
Steven Tyler

"We weren’t too ambitious when we started out. We just wanted to be the biggest thing that ever walked the planet."
Steven Tyler

"I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let’s see, I guess that makes me 19."
Steven Tyler

"Whether it's fine artists, musical artists, or ultra right wing bull shit artists, we all need the right to freedom of expression"
Steven Tyler

"Younger bands are into jerking off and we're into @#$%&. That's all there is to it!"
Steven Tyler

"Good night, everyone- and remember- in this world, if you wanna get ahead, you gotta learn to give a little!"
Steven Tyler

After firing Megadeath as their opening act, Steven Tyler was quoted as saying: "We would like to help you out. Which way did you come in?"
Steven Tyler

We haven't quite been able to put together the deal for the shuttle -- we want to be the lounge act. Be the first band to play weightless!"
Steven Tyler

"I just want Aerosmith to always give me a hard-on, that's all I ever ask for, for it to be the most special thing in my life. As long as I look at it through those eyes, it will always be that way."
Steven Tyler

"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."
Steven Tyler

"Our story was basically that we had it all, and we pissed it all away."
Joe Perry

"These days it's almost like a lot of kids get into bands because they want to get rich and famous, but when we started this band that wasn't really part of it. I never envisioned what I was doing as part of a career. We weren't even aware of all the stuff that came with it. We just looked at the bands that we idolized - like the Yardbirds - and we were blown away by how they could play. All we wanted to do was play like that, to be a great band like that."
Joe Perry

"You know, I definitely enjoy it, to be this close to that kind of insanity every day."
Joe Perry

(Joe on writer's block):"I think there was a time when I used to feel that way, but...it's like I'm past caring anymore. I know that it's gonna come out as good as it's gonna come out, and I know from history that people just don't lose it, y'know what I mean?"
Joe Perry

"I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone."
Joe Perry

"Steven's got a lot more time to be obsessed with sex now that he's not @#$%& up"
Tom Hamilton

"I think I deserve to ask MTV a question. Do I have any roast Beef in my teeth?, I just ate."
Tom Hamilton

"Steven and Joe had an argument the first night about Joe playing too loud, and so began an Aerosmith tradition."
Tom Hamilton

"I remember when Joe left, he gave an interview that really hurt me. He said, 'Aerosmith is not ready for the Eighties.' That hurt. It hurt because he was right. I though about that on New Year's Eve, when we were playing this great gig at home in Boston. It was my birthday, and I was thinking that Aerosmith is a band ready for the Nineties. We have a future now. For a while we didn't have one. It's one hell of a nice thing to have."
Tom Hamilton

"We never wanted to be a bar band. We were always a concert band."
Joey Kramer

"If we've handled everything up until now, we can do anything."
Joey Kramer

"Things were getting more like Sid and Nancy than Spinal Tap. It wasn't funny anymore."
Brad Whitford

It's to easy to do something different, the challenge is to stay in your own space, and keep it good. That's the hard part
Brad Whitford