Sunday STEVEN TYLER With...

The Aerosmith frontman, who turned 70 this year, is like no septuagenarian we know.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has a new documentary about his move into country music, Steven Tyler: Out on a Limb, opening the Nashville Film Festival on May 10 (available on VOD and digital HD May 15). Then he’s off on a solo tour of North America and Europe. Tyler talked to Parade about his big birthday bash, who inspires him and how he’s going to live forever.

You celebrated your 70th in Maui. How was

that? Well, it’s Maui and papayas and hula girls and sunshine. It’s beautiful. My partner, Aimee [Preston], threw a party for me beyond belief. I thought I was at Cirque du Soleil. There were girls that had wings walking around on stilts. There was Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood . . . unbelievable.

How do you feel about

turning 70? Well, I know I’m going to live forever, but . . . [laughs]. I had a title for a song once called “20 Summers.” The guys in the band said, “What does that mean?” I said, “Well, it’s all I’ve got left.” That’s a grim way of looking at it. I fill up every day, so in a sense I don’t feel the number; 70 is the new 50. If you go to the doctor and eat the right food, you can live a long time. Now watch, I’ll probably drop dead tomorrow. What were Sundays like for you growing up in New York? When my aunt, uncle, grandma, grandfather and my sister, mother and father and I all sat at the table together, we would talk all over each other. Being Italians, we always spoke our feelings. We watched movies in the afternoon, and you’re supposed to be off, it’s God’s day, but it was the day that I washed all the cars. And we always had ice cream. It was the greatest. What’s a typical Sunday like now? When I’m on tour, it’s my day off. It’s great to do the big nothing. If I get to just sleep in, order room service and go to the movies, I’m a very lucky guy. Tell us about Out

on a Limb. Much of it is about making your solo country album, 2016’s We’re All Somebody From Somewhere. I’d never done a solo record. The rest of the guys in Aerosmith did; Joe [Perry] did six. I finally took it upon myself and drove everyone crazy. I moved to Nashville, met a bunch of songwriters and [producer/ songwriter] T Bone Burnett and asked if he’d be willing to produce this record with me. I wanted to do an outlaw country–type album, to write like Waylon Jennings and Hank Williams Jr. and Merle Haggard.

The story is to be

continued? Right. We [Aerosmith] are still on tour. I’m going out with my country band [The Loving Mary Band]. We’re still kicking ass. I rarely have a day off.

And that’s fine with

you? That’s where I come from. It’s really about just being a songwriter and having to come up with these imaginary places that you sing about that get people out of the place they’re in. I think I’ve done it well—it’s been such a trip.