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“Touring is very tough.”
“I only ever did one hotel room because at the end of the tour, I had a little less money than the rest of the guys, and the tour manager said, 'You remember that hotel room you destroyed in Iowa? Well, we had to pay for it.' And I was like, 'Ooooh. That's how it works.'”
“Being in Motley Crue really made me value friends and family.”
“It's weird, for me as a fan, to have a fan tell me that I'm their favorite singer. It's still a little awkward for me. I love to hear it, but I don't know how to respond to it. It's a very awkward thing to interpret what somebody else sees in me.”
“My mother raised me to open the car door, open the door; if you take a woman out, you should pick up the check, and blah blah blah - whatever.”
“Every band has an 'off' night once in a while - that's gonna happen.”
“I had a few friends that were with me before I was in Motley that were there after I was in Motley, and it wasn't that many.”
“Unfortunately, the record I did with Motley wasn't exactly a huge success. But working with those guys was a huge learning experience as well as a really creative time, so I had an absolute blast during that five years of my life!”
“With technology being the way that it is right now with Pro Tools and all that other stuff, more and more people are recording stuff at home and just utilizing Youtube and Facebook.”
“Probably about 90 percent of the things that you read that supposedly came out of my mouth in regards to the Motley guys, usually most of it is incorrect. At the end of the day, I have no ill will.”
“My son is my drummer.”
“I think that everything you do, everything that you start and everything that you end, it does that for a reason, and it's to move forward on to the next thing or the next road or the next path or whatever.”
“I'm a songwriter, and I'm more than just a screamer.”
“I'm a huge Glenn Hughes fan.”
“When I started doing the acoustic shows, people would be yelling for 'Hooligan's Holiday' and 'Smoke The Sky,' and I had no idea of how to pull them off.”
“I don't like doing what people would expect of me.”
“Doug Aldrich and I grew up in Philadelphia together, and Doug used to come and see a cover band that I was in. He was, like, 15 or 16, and I was, like, 18, 19.”
“Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the '80s and '90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains and Soundgarden and whatever, I was very into a lot of those bands.”
“I had a great run with Ratt.”
“That year, the year after being in Motley Crue, was very difficult. But I learned, and I coped with it. And life is good still.”