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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. "
Tommy Lee
Time
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Guy
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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'm driven by music. It's in my blood, and I've never been able to stay away from it for too long. "
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" Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely. "
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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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" 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 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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Thinking
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" Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing? "
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Chicks
Why
Sing
" When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength. "
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You
Down
Strength
" It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me. "
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Experience
Time
Me
" 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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Never
Voice
Never Forget
" 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. "
Tommy Lee
Space
Moon
Flying
" The drums are about gravity. Your hand naturally falls down on the drums as you hit them. "
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You
Hand
Gravity
" 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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Out
Sometimes
Time
" 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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Amazing
Walk
Me
" Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?' "
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Doing
Back
You
" I don't have a problem with my temper. "
Tommy Lee
Problem
Temper
" 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. "
Tommy Lee
Down
Drive
Hard
" I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge of a drum. "
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Edge
Always
Like
" The New York Dolls are the only band that we grew up on that we haven't played with. "
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New York
Up
Band
" I'm really a cool, mellow guy. I'm not as crazy as everybody thinks. "
Tommy Lee
Cool
Crazy
Everybody
" Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time. "
Tommy Lee
Albums
Favorite
List
" There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd. "
Tommy Lee
Time
Show Off
Show
" I was always impressed by some of the progressive styles of guys like Neil Peart. "
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Progressive
Always
Guys
" 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
Me
Time
" 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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Who
Away
System
" 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. "
Tommy Lee
Three
Professional
Legend
" 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. "
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You
Sitting
Meant To Be
" I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that's just my personal preference. "
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Sorry
Think
" 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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Yourself
Believe
Be Yourself
" By the age of 17, for me, we had got an recording contract, and, boom, I was gone. "
Tommy Lee
Age
Recording
Me