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" They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles. "

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" Growing up in the '70s, it was only a few years before that when men started to grow their hair long. And in the '70s, people were pushing the envelope a little farther, with men having even more style and piercing both their ears and wearing makeup. "

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" If you're getting different prescriptions from different doctors, there has to be some sort of check and balance in there somewhere. "

" The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records. "

" In '85, I went through rehab and I wasn't ready. If you're not ready, you're not ready. You don't want to hear the truth, and you're gonna keep doing what you keep doing. "

" Addiction is a really hard thing to kick. "

" Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want. "

" If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead. "

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" As a lyricist, I'm really trying to raise my level of quality. "

" I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods. "

" If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band. "

" Each guy has his own space. We all end up in one of the other guy's rooms all the time. We always end up together, as far as people getting along. "

" Los Angeles has been my home since the days even before Motley Crue, so I am beyond excited that 'The Side Show' has found a home on 98.7 FM. This is the station I listen to - my friends listen to it, my family listens to it. It's the station I wanted to be on, and I'm psyched to get started. "

" You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older. "

" Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique. "

" The book is really, really dark, to the point where some people that I've talked to have said that it could be a series. And I'm like, Where? VH1? It's a little hard for VH1. "

" I don't really care what people do. "

" I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There's nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve. "

" You can't pee like a puppy if you wanna run with the big dogs. "

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" I've always had an eye for the oddities in life. "

" We each have our own tour bus. We've never done that before. "

" I just think if I can go from being a homeless kid with a dream of being in the biggest band in the world and making that happen, I can do a lot of other cool stuff, too. "

" I just love doing radio. I've learned to be more vulnerable through radio than even I've been through books and writing lyrics. It's a different type of experience where, if I'm writing a lyric, I can sort of hide behind it a little bit. "

" It's interesting. People go to an animal shelter and pick a dog that's been kicked, beaten, and has lost a leg and an eye, and they'll take that dog home and give it love and support, but they don't do that with people. "

" You don't base records on success; you base it on creativity. "

" Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms. "

" Do I think anything I ever do will be as big as Motley Crue? It's impossible. "

" I listen to NPR a lot. I love that. "

" For me, to turn people on to new music, on to things that are going on in the world, is important. "

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" The industry is a menace to artists. "

" Fans are so grateful when you go places they don't expect you to go. "

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