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The long-awaited, never-before-told, no-holds-barred memoir from the legendary Aerosmith frontman. Finally, all the lurid tales of debauchery, sex, drugs and rock n' roll are told straight from the horse's lips as The Demon of Screamin' describes his unimaginable highs and unbelievable lows as... read more

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  • “I lived by the old rock star manual: wretched excess in dandified duds.”
  • “There was a gap out there in the zit-pocked heart of the teenage wasteland and we were determined to fill it.”
  • “Does the noise in my head bother you....yet?”
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  • Life is short. Break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that makes you smile.”
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  • For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
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  • “A lot of your problems have my name on them, but most of the solutions will have your name on them.”
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  • When the roaring flames of your heart have burned down to embers, may you find that you have married your best friend.
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  • Life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
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  • Reasonable people adapt themselves to the situations they find themselves in. But the unreasonable man insists on trying to make the world see things his way—therefore, it’s the unreasonable sons of bitches who are always the catalysts for progress.
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  • And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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  • THE THINGS THAT COME TO THOSE THAT WAIT MAY BE THE THINGS LEFT BY THOSE WHO GOT THEIRS FIRST.
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  • Like Albert Einstein once said: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
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  • Sometimes you can’t appreciate how fortunate you are until you look back and get to glance into the what-it-is-ness and see how it all reflects off from whence you came. I started there, so now I’m here. I guess we’re all here . . . ’cause we’re not all there.
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Life is short.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Semiprologue
1. Peripheral Visionary
2. Zits and tits
3. The Pipe that was never played
4. My red parachute (and other dreams)
5. Confessions of a rhyme-a-holic
6. Little Bo Peep, The Glitter Queen, and The girl in the Yellow Corvette
7. Noise in the Attic
8. Ladies and Genitals...I'm not a bad guy (I'm just egotestical)
9. The hood, the bad, the ugly...hammered with Hemingway
10. Food poisoning at a Family Picnic
11. Getting lost on the way to the middle
12. Where you end and I begin...again (the goddess)
13. Trouble in paradise (losing your grip on the life fantastic)
13.5. The bitch goddess of Billboard
14. Holy smoke, Quest for the grand pashmina, and the big chill of twenty summers
15. To Zanzibar and back
16. Falling in love is hard on the knees
17. Take a walk inside my mind...
Acknowledgments
Index

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  1. Steven Tyler (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-06-193469-8
Page Count: 376

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