Tommy Lee

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?'”

“I'm driven by music. It's in my blood, and I've never been able to stay away from it for too long.”

“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 wouldn't specifically say rock n' roll is dead, but I don't see a lot of charismatic performers in the way of new blood who are edgy and dangerous on stage, like Marilyn Manson, who you never quite know if he's going to make it through his own show.”

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

“I'm still that rowdy dude who has after-parties in his dressing room with a concert-sized PA system blasting away.”

“The New York Dolls are the only band that we grew up on that we haven't played with.”

“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.'”

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

“I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits.”

“I didn't have the opportunity to go to college. I was busy touring since the age of 17.”