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" I'm driven by music. It's in my blood, and I've never been able to stay away from it for too long. "
Tommy Lee
Long
Music
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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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" 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. "
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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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" You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write. "
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" 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. "
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" Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time. "
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" I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever. "
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" 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. "
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" Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse. "
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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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" 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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" No, I don't have a problem with my temper. "
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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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" The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" There's no new news. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods. "
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" 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. "
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