Quotes from Tommy Lee

Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits.

The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.

The very first thing I look at on a woman is her toes.

I'm really a cool, mellow guy. I'm not as crazy as everybody thinks.

Every tour we do, everybody's always wondering, 'What's Tommy Lee going to do next? What new, wild and crazy thing is he going to come up with?'

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.

The Radiohead record, 'The Bends' is my all-time favorite record on the planet.

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.

By the age of 17, for me, we had got an recording contract, and, boom, I was gone.

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.

John Bonham was probably the most influential in terms of playing style and timing.

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.

Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time.

There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd.

I don't know how much you know about me, but I kind of have my fingers in a lot of different pies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.

If Trent Reznor calls and says he needs a drummer for his tour... I'm there.

I didn't have the opportunity to go to college. I was busy touring since the age of 17.

Drums isn't my one thing anymore. I love to produce. I love to make tracks, write tracks, produce tracks, and I can't just sit back as a drummer anymore.

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? Mötley Crüe could be the first band to play on the moon.