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" I'm really a cool, mellow guy. I'm not as crazy as everybody thinks. "
Tommy Lee
Cool
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Everybody
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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. "
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" I don't know how much you know about me, but I kind of have my fingers in a lot of different pies. "
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" 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. "
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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'll never forget when I was, like, 17, and 'Highway to Hell' came on the radio, and I was like, 'Dude, listen to that guy's voice!' "
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" I love touring Canada, and our Calgary fans are among the roughest and toughest. "
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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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" I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods. "
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" When I'm single, I'm one guy, and when I'm in a relationship I'm totally another. They're both a good time. "
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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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" Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time. "
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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 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. "
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" Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you. "
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" Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?' "
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" I really wanna get my paws on scoring a film. "
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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 did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school. "
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" There was no way we were going to let this band hobble around on three legs. We chose the route that every professional actor, athlete and musician should do - leave the legend intact and bow out at the top. "
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" I'm constantly evolving as a musician. "
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" One of my favorite things in the world is to be seeing two people that are really old, still holding hands, still kissing. "
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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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" It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear. "
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Experience
" 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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" 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 was always impressed by some of the progressive styles of guys like Neil Peart. "
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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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" I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco. "
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" I threw my son, Brandon, a rave for his birthday and I fully set it up like a crazy rave with lights and sound, me and my partner DJ'd - I got Mix Master Mike from the Beastie Boys to come DJ for a bit. "
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