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I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.
Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?'
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'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge of a drum.
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.
I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.
There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd.
I'm still that rowdy dude who has after-parties in his dressing room with a concert-sized PA system blasting away.
The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck.
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.
The crowd is a pretty good indicator when it's good, because it's kind of a universal energy that gets passed around.
What I wanna do with Methods is keep that around as sorta my freak out, creative free for all- anything goes project.
I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.
When I got home from The Ozzfest in September 2000 with Methods... I just locked myself in my house and I started writing.
One of my favorite things in the world is to be seeing two people that are really old, still holding hands, still kissing.
It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.
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.
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'll never forget when I was, like, 17, and 'Highway to Hell' came on the radio, and I was like, 'Dude, listen to that guy's voice!'
I was never one for the passenger seat. I have always wanted my level of entertainment and showmanship to be the same as a frontman.
Phil Rudd from AC/DC was someone I really liked a lot... Not because I was dazzled by his playing ability - he was just a rock, y'know?
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.
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.
I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco.
Whatever we do as a band, none of us can do as individuals. We all know that, whatever we have gone through with each other and as a band.
Of course drums weren't meant to be played other than sitting on the ground. When you're upside-down, your feet don't want to sit on the pedals.
Every tour we do, everybody's always wondering, 'What's Tommy Lee going to do next? What new, wild and crazy thing is he going to come up with?'
The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.
Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff, or material for Motley, I just write to write. I come up with it and put things in different piles.
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.
Drums isn't my one thing anymore. I love to produce. I love to make tracks, write tracks, produce tracks, and I can't just sit back as a drummer anymore.
Getting married in four days was the biggest... mistake I've ever made. I have two beautiful kids, but... how can you know somebody in four days? Bonehead.
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.
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.
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 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.
My oldest boy is 14, and he's not in that kind of awkward stage where, when we talk about girls, or there's a hot girl walking by - they're just so shy; it's weird.
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've always been kind of a - you know, I have my moments, where I can be Tommy, and then I flip a switch; when you're on stage, you turn into this other personality.
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.
I guess I always think the people that know me or fans that have followed me and know my solo work would know that I've always had really eclectic tastes - even in Motley, dude.
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.
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.
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.
My house is really clean. It's a really big house so I have three ladies who come in and clean it twice a week, but let's just say that, in between times, maybe it's not quite so clean.
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.
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.
I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. The things that sound like they might be Crue, I put aside on my hard drive and keep them in that pile.
Playing upside down is insane. It's two or three times more difficult than what's normal. Your feet want to come off the pedals, your arms want to drop down - all of your body is fighting gravity.