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" I didn't have the opportunity to go to college. I was busy touring since the age of 17. "
Tommy Lee
Age
Busy
College
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" John Bonham was probably the most influential in terms of playing style and timing. "
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" The New York Dolls are the only band that we grew up on that we haven't played with. "
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" When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength. "
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" 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. "
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" The crowd is a pretty good indicator when it's good, because it's kind of a universal energy that gets passed around. "
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" I take the best of all the styles I like and put them together in one package. "
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" One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Motley Crue could be the first band to play on the moon. "
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" 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. "
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" I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers. "
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" If Trent Reznor calls and says he needs a drummer for his tour... I'm there. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm still that rowdy dude who has after-parties in his dressing room with a concert-sized PA system blasting away. "
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" I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge of a drum. "
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" By the age of 17, for me, we had got an recording contract, and, boom, I was gone. "
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" I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school. "
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" No, I don't have a problem with my temper. "
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" The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck. "
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" The drums are about gravity. Your hand naturally falls down on the drums as you hit them. "
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" The Radiohead record, The Bends is my all-time favorite record on the planet. "
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" 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. "
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" There's no new news. "
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" 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! "
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