A biography for Tommy Leehasn’t been written yet.
“I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.”
“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.”
“The Radiohead record, The Bends is my all-time favorite record on the planet.”
“I really wanna get my paws on scoring a film.”
“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.”
“I take the best of all the styles I like and put them together in one package.”
“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 don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.”
“If Trent Reznor calls and says he needs a drummer for his tour... I'm there.”
“I've loved roller coasters since I was a kid.”
“The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There are things you do that just come natural, and sometimes those are amazingly in synch, and sometimes they're horribly out of synch, and you're like, 'Ooo! That wasn't very good tonight.' Most of the time, it's just on.”
“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.”
“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'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge of a drum.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”