Double covers this week for Steven Tyler (take that Jlo!) as he promotes his new memoir, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?, out May 3.
In the story, writes Rolling Stone, Steven talks about his motivation for signing on as an American Idol judge – a move he made after his bandmates threatened to throw him out of Aerosmith. “Did I take this job to show the band?” he says. “Fuck, yeah. Not to show them, but that I can’t be held hostage anymore. I will be my own hostage. The band can’t throw me out.”
Check out more excerpts from the book Rolling Stone pulled out HERE.
Steven tells People, “If you think going out in front of high-def cameras and millions of people I’m not high on adrenaline, you’re crazy. I’m stoned when that curtain drops, ” adds Tyler, “I just don’t snort the curtain dropping. I don’t snort J. Lo either, though I do breathe her in.”
Alrighty then!
More Exerprts from Rolling Stone after the JUMP…
- On Simon Cowell, “He was being a wiseass, you know, and putting people down for things where it’s, like, forgive him, he knows not what he does. I heard him say, ‘I don’t like country & western music, ‘ and I’m like, ‘Come on.’ But I wasn’t sure if Simon had touched something in the hearts of people – or if compassion could be the new black.”
- On his choice to become Idol judge, “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. I heard someone say, ‘Would Bob Dylan do this?’ and I said, ‘No.’ I felt instant shame. But he’s not comfortable around fucking people. I could have been laughed out of town, it might have not worked: ‘He sucks, he was on Idol and we saw who he really was, he’s an idiot.’ Could have been.”
- Impressed with the talent level of Idol, “”You know what? Out of the 20 kids you saw tonight, if you could just sprinkle 10 years of smoking pot, getting fucked up, getting laid, getting fucked, and 10 years of just life – which one of those people wouldn’t be a star?”
