Steven Tyler - Steven Tyler joined Idol because of anger

Steven Tyler joined Idol because of anger

Steven Tyler joined the 'American Idol' judging panel ''out of anger''.

The Aerosmith frontman admits he took a ''bit of a risk'' signing up for the talent show - which he quit earlier this year after two series - because he didn't know what he was doing on the programme at first, but he was desperate to do something aside from making music with the group.

He said: ''It was great, it was a bit of a risk in the beginning, I wasn't sure what I was doing, I did it out of anger, the band was going through stuff and I went away somewhere to get a good look at what was going on, I'd just finished writing my book and a bunch of things and I just said, 'Get me Idol'.''

Steven admits he was a ''little unsure'' initially if he'd chosen the right career move by signing up to 'American Idol', but he soon realised it was a ''good thing'' when Aerosmith's sales skyrocketed.

He added in an interview with Absolute Radio's Russ Williams: ''I wrote a song for this Japanese movie with Marty Fredrickson, a guy we write with, and with Kara [DioGuardi], who was a judge on 'Idol', she was like, 'Well why don't you just do 'Idol'?' And I thought about it for a couple of weeks and I said, 'Let's just do it.'

''So I was a little ambivalent, I wasn't sure, but after the first year the Aerosmith ratings went up 270 per cent, every time someone sang 'Dream On' or 'Don't Want to Miss a Thing' you know our songs went up on iTunes, it was a good thing.''