Zitat des Tages von Tommy Lee:
It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.
Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.
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 don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.
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.
Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time.
The crowd is a pretty good indicator when it's good, because it's kind of a universal energy that gets passed around.
Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?
The older I get, the more I don't care what people think or what people say. I just do what moves me.
I take the best of all the styles I like and put them together in one package.
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? Motley Crue could be the first band to play on the moon.
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.
I got really frustrated in jail, and I was like, 'Man, I love what I've done, and I love the mark I've made on rock n' roll history'... and I sat there, and I got really depressed, thinking, 'I gotta make a move... do something fresh and new.'
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.
The Radiohead record, The Bends is my all-time favorite record on the planet.
I'm constantly evolving as a musician.
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.
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.
I love touring Canada, and our Calgary fans are among the roughest and toughest.
The drums are about gravity. Your hand naturally falls down on the drums as you hit them.
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?
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.
The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.
There's no new news.
Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?'
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.
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 didn't have the opportunity to go to college. I was busy touring since the age of 17.
I really wanna get my paws on scoring a film.
There was no way we were going to let this band hobble around on three legs. We chose the route that every professional actor, athlete and musician should do - leave the legend intact and bow out at the top.
I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in.
The New York Dolls are the only band that we grew up on that we haven't played with.
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.
There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd.
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.
On our first record, man, I didn't know what I was doing. I was just playing. I was over playing. You're as green as you can be with no experience in recording or knowing how sometimes a song can work: when it's too much, when it's not enough, when it's not right.
