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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. "
Tommy Lee
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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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" 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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" I didn't have the opportunity to go to college. I was busy touring since the age of 17. "
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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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" Too many drummers sit at the back covered in drums, and you never see them. "
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" It's been a while since I've studied: since high school. It's a lot of work, a lot of work. "
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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 love touring Canada, and our Calgary fans are among the roughest and toughest. "
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" I'm really a cool, mellow guy. I'm not as crazy as everybody thinks. "
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" I've loved roller coasters since I was a kid. "
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" Being a drummer, I'm always like, 'Oh, that's got a funky beat. That's cool,' and I like to dance. "
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" I was always impressed by some of the progressive styles of guys like Neil Peart. "
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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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" Phil Rudd from AC/DC was someone I really liked a lot... Not because I was dazzled by his playing ability - he was just a rock, y'know? "
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" 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. "
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" I'm constantly evolving as a musician. "
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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 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.' "
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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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" The older I get, the more I don't care what people think or what people say. I just do what moves me. "
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" I don't have a problem with my temper. "
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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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" 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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Time