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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Tommy Lee

Yourself

Believe

Be Yourself

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

Tommy Lee

Experience

Time

" 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. "

" There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd. "

" Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse. "

Tommy Lee

Beat

Stage

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

Tommy Lee

New York

Band

" I don't know how much you know about me, but I kind of have my fingers in a lot of different pies. "

Tommy Lee

Much

Different

" 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. "

" Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing? "

" I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge of a drum. "

Tommy Lee

Edge

Always

" Going through life solo isn't very exciting if you can't share it with somebody, you know? "

" 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. "

" By the age of 17, for me, we had got an recording contract, and, boom, I was gone. "

Tommy Lee

Age

Recording

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

" Too many drummers sit at the back covered in drums, and you never see them. "

" Every tour we do, everybody's always wondering, 'What's Tommy Lee going to do next? What new, wild and crazy thing is he going to come up with?' "

Tommy Lee

Always

Crazy

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

" 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. "

" When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength. "

" 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. "

Tommy Lee

See

Think

" Trust me: all of us walk around and look at each other, and without saying it, we all know we're thinking, 'Really dude? Were still here!' and pinch ourselves. Typically, careers have short life span, 10 years if you're lucky, so what we've done is amazing. "

Tommy Lee

Amazing

Walk

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

" The horses forced into the chuckwagon races die of heart attacks, broken necks, broken legs, and other injuries. It'd be easy to get off on western tradition without this bloody spectacle. Dude, it's the Old West, not ancient Rome! "

" 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. "

" I take the best of all the styles I like and put them together in one package. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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