Tommy Lee Quotes

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.

Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.

Just because we are wearing lipstick doesn't mean we can't kick your ass!

You know what the most destructive force in the universe is? Regret.

I'm a hopeless fu**ing romantic. That's a part of me that a lot of people don't know about. They know everything there is to know about another part of me, but not a thing about my heart.'- Tommy Lee

You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.

Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?

My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do, he supported me. I don't mean that I was spoilt - he didn't believe in material gifts - but he watched my back while I worked to achieve things.

I'm happy doing what I'm doing, and if you have that kind of attitude then everything else from there on is a bonus.

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

Well, some people die and then they sell more records, go figure.

But you know what I'm trying to say, it's that there's a couple of really dangerous drugs out there and I've lost some friends to them.

The Radiohead record, 'The Bends' is my all-time favorite record on the planet.

One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Mötley Crüe could be the first band to play on the moon.

I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.

Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.

I still play but for some reason, I am having so much fun playing guitar and singing that I don't really miss it because I've done it for so long like twenty-something years with Motley.

It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That's definitely me.

Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.

What I wanna do with Methods is keep that around as sorta my freak out, creative free for all- anything goes project.

The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.

I think that when I did the Methods Of Mayhem record, some of the hip-hop stuff probably freaked a lot of Motley Crue fans out.

I lived up on Kanan and Mulholland. It's a bit of a drive, but once you get there, the horses, vineyards, it's just so peaceful.

I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.

I'm not Superman. I can't handle all of these women.

I got it: stay away from cocaine and heroin.

I don't have a problem with my temper.

When I'm single, I'm one guy, and when I'm in a relationship I'm totally another. They're both a good time.

Sometimes when you cut your bed tracks right off the bat, you don't really know where the vocal is landing and where the background vocals are, and other loops and stuff that are going on.

Once the song is done and recorded, I like to go back and then cut the drums, because then I know exactly what the song needs, and what it doesn't need.

Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time.

You know what, I just write what I feel.

If it's successful and it sounds awesome, and looks killer live, then I guess I can pat myself on the back and take all the credit too.

Imagine how frustrating it is, being completely locked up and watching your family leave, your wife and children, and not being able to do anything about it.

I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.

Obviously, I'm a little more responsible these days.

I'm really a cool, mellow guy. I'm not as crazy as everybody thinks.

There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.

The only thing that's changed for me is that I've figured out a new way to do this; when I go to record, I like to do the drums last, if that makes any sense to you.

I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.

I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.

I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that's just my personal preference.

Being married to two extremely high profile, you know, actresses, and being sort of chased by, you know, paparazzi and people, it's a whole different dynamic happens to a relationship when that happens. All of a sudden, things get a little crazy, a little crazy.

At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.