Top 7 Revelations From Steven Tyler's Book

May 5, 2011 — -- Steven Tyler is a trip.

The Aerosmith front man and "American Idol" judge lays out how he became a gnarly mess of a rock and roll icon in his memoir, "Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?" which came out Tuesday.

Indeed, there's a lot of noise in the book's nearly 400 pages. Tyler weaves a winding tale of his 63 years, from growing up in working class New York City and rural New Hampshire ("I was a mountain boy, barefoot and wild") to feeling on top of the world as only the rich and famous can ("For the whole of the '70s we were all nicely f**ked up and deep-fried").

It's easy to picture Tyler spilling out these stories over a night fueled by whiskey, bong hits and a campfire. In between the rambling accounts of who did what to whom on a tour bus, he reveals his thoughts on sex (good), drugs (bad, mostly) and reality TV (a little bit of both).

Below, check out seven choice excerpts from Tyler's book:

Early July: I'm on a plane coming back from England to start the American leg of the tour and there's an in-flight movie called "The Back-up Plan" playing. There'd already been rumors and grumblings about my doing "American Idol." My own internal interrogator is going, "Can you do it, Steven?" Do you want to do it, lad?" I said, "You know, yeah, I do."