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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

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" I don't have a problem with my temper. "

Tommy Lee

Problem

Temper

" I got really frustrated in jail, and I was like, 'Man, I love what I've done, and I love the mark I've made on rock n' roll history'... and I sat there, and I got really depressed, thinking, 'I gotta make a move... do something fresh and new.' "

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

" 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. "

Tommy Lee

Baby

Time

" 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. "

" I've loved roller coasters since I was a kid. "

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

Tommy Lee

Edge

Always

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Tommy Lee

You

Think

" 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. "

Tommy Lee

Crazy

Birthday

" Being a drummer, I'm always like, 'Oh, that's got a funky beat. That's cool,' and I like to dance. "

Tommy Lee

Drummer

Dance

" 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. "

" The crowd is a pretty good indicator when it's good, because it's kind of a universal energy that gets passed around. "

" Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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

" The drums are about gravity. Your hand naturally falls down on the drums as you hit them. "

" I guess I always think the people that know me or fans that have followed me and know my solo work would know that I've always had really eclectic tastes - even in Motley, dude. "

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

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

" The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts. "