INTERVIEW: Steven Tyler On American Idol's New Judges: There's Love You Haven't Seen In 10 Years

No Simon but lotsa love.

Steven Tyler says that on the new season of American Idol viewers will see a love among judges that they haven’t seen in 10 years.

“I think there’s love up there and certainly there’s camaraderie that you haven’t seen in 10 years,” Tyler said in a conference-call interview Tuesday. “And about that, I’m really happy that I get along with Randy so well. JLo is a fox and she’s also street and she also had a big heart.”

“And I watched her and fell in love with her. The way she played that to the guv who’s falling in love with her. The way she played that part I could so relate to. I thought anybody that can be this open and honest even acting I just fell for her.”

Sounds like he fell for Randy Jackson too.” I met Randy first and I thought Randy was the sh*t,” Tyler said. “I love Randy. He and I got on in the first 5 minutes, it was like we were separated at birth.”

Tyler also said he has rarely been harsh with contestants this season and revealed he has a contract for more than one season, although he wouldn’t specify how long it runs.

“I’m not going in there to be a harsh judge or overly bearing judge,” Tyler said. “I’m just bringing my Italian, I-know-how-to-work-a-room-and-fill-it honesty -- 40 years as a front guy in Aerosmith, who’s judged the hell out of himself and made a good career out of it,” Tyler said.

Still, Tyler has a few regrets. “Yeah I made some harsh comments the first week and they snapped back and said, ‘What do you mean?’ I only did two of those,” he revealed with a laugh.

“There were only two of those because I didn’t want that to happen again. I couldn’t say that you were no good without substantiating why and a couple times I said, ‘You just don’t have it’ they did ask me why and I couldn’t tell them why.”