Quotes from Tommy Lee

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.

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

I was never one for the passenger seat. I have always wanted my level of entertainment and showmanship to be the same as a frontman.

The older I get, the more I don't care what people think or what people say. I just do what moves me.

I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.

I'm still that rowdy dude who has after-parties in his dressing room with a concert-sized PA system blasting away.

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.

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?

I really wanna get my paws on scoring a film.

Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.

I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.

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.

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.

Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?'

I'm a hopeless fu**ing romantic. That's a part of me that a lot of people don't know about. They know everything there is to know about another part of me, but not a thing about my heart.'- Tommy Lee

You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.

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!

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 don't have a problem with my temper.

No, I don't have a problem with my temper.

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.