If you’re considering purchasing American Idol judge and Aerosmith lead Steven Tyler’s new book, you may want to first check out this excerpt released today!
In this bit, Tyler discusses what being young teaches you about the unknown. Read part of it below:
When you’re young, you experience everything for the first time, and because it’s happening to you so matter-of-factly, it just is…and you argue your way through it. In midlife, you question f—ing everything, and so much energy is wasted questioning the whys of it all. You want to find that angel of thunderstorms that will put out your internal fire. You start to believe that you made it through six decades because there is an angel on your shoulder.
That’s why I’m a songwriter—because I’ve lived through the changes of not knowing ANYTHING…to knowing EVERYTHING…and now at sixty-two I’m back to NOT KNOWIN’ NOTHIN’. And when your mind is free of so-called knowledge, it is now set free to use its imagination. Like Albert Einstein once said: “Knowledge will never replace imagination.”
Does The Noise In My Head Bother You? hits store shelves today. Continue reading at this link!
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