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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.

- Steven Tyler

Back, I Think, Wear, Jacket

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

- Steven Tyler

Tears, Last, Months, August

Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.

- Steven Tyler

Think, Like, I Think, Expresses

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.

- Steven Tyler

Think, Country, I Think, Mandatory

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

- Steven Tyler

Back, Need, Some, Airplane

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

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Been, Could, Olympic, Junior

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

- Steven Tyler

City, New York City, Drum, Drum Set

My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.

- Steven Tyler

Anybody, Had, Gotten, Climbed

Guitar players never listen to lead singers.

- Steven Tyler

Never, Players, Singers, Guitar Players

I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.

- Steven Tyler

Woods, Feeling, Up, Lake

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.

- Steven Tyler

Born, Being, Waters, Whales

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.

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Tell, Pine, Needles, Why Not

I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.

- Steven Tyler

Go, Come, Wear, Bra

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.

- Steven Tyler

Deer, Through, Hampshire, Closest

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.

- Steven Tyler

Nothing, Like, Could, Bowling Alley

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

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Wear, Got, Still, Boots

Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.

- Steven Tyler

Color, Shower, Very, Barefoot

It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

- Steven Tyler

Feel Good, Reason, Feel, Uncertain

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

- Steven Tyler

Humility, Important, New, Fresh

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

- Steven Tyler

Me, Over, Melody, Riffs

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.

- Steven Tyler

Back, I Think, Got, Aerosmith

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

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Like, Melodies, Lot, Structure

Fake it until you make it.

- Steven Tyler

You, Until, Make, Fake

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.

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Need, Everybody, Pass, Judgments

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.

- Steven Tyler

Love, Always, Took, Reached

Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.

- Steven Tyler

Important, How, Cut, Realize

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

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Doing, Worth, Overdoing

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.

- Steven Tyler

Feet, Dancing, Been, Awhile

I'm really just a country boy.

- Steven Tyler

Country, Boy, Just, Country Boy

If you take all that I've learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that into a song, not only are you using the gifts that God gave you, but also all the experiences you've had.

- Steven Tyler

Song, Joe, Using, Gifts

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