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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. "
Tommy Lee
Gone
Band
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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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" Being married to two extremely high profile, you know, actresses, and being sort of chased by, you know, paparazzi and people, it's a whole different dynamic happens to a relationship when that happens. All of a sudden, things get a little crazy, a little crazy. "
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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've always been kind of a - you know, I have my moments, where I can be Tommy, and then I flip a switch; when you're on stage, you turn into this other personality. "
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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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" Going through life solo isn't very exciting if you can't share it with somebody, you know? "
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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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" A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals. "
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" 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. "
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" At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience. "
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" It's so funny because no matter what you say, fans only read and hear what they want. "
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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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Band
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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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High School
School
" Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse. "
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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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Me
" 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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" 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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" I love touring Canada, and our Calgary fans are among the roughest and toughest. "
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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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Green
Work
Experience
" Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing? "
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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 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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" 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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" 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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" I'm really a cool, mellow guy. I'm not as crazy as everybody thinks. "
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" You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write. "
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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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" 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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" 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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