Tommy Lee Quotes

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 don't have a problem with my temper.

I got it: stay away from cocaine and heroin.

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.

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.

Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?

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

I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team.

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

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

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

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

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

It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.

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

The record is definitely a musical journey. It's kind of all over the place, which I like.

You know what, I just write what I feel.

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.

When I got home from The Ozzfest in September 2000 with Methods... I just locked myself in my house and I started writing.

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.

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.

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