Tommy Lee

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

"I wrote it about a friend of mine who married his high school sweet heart. They had a baby together and one day, when the baby was about four months old, my friends wife was driving down the road by h…"

"Once the song is done and recorded, I like to go back and then cut the drums, because then I know exactly what the song needs, and what it doesn't need."

"You can rock shit as loud as you want, as hard as you want, but there's a soft side to every artist. You gotta have something more to say other than "YEEEEEEEAAAAHHHHHH!" There's gotta be more, otherw…"

"Imagine how frustrating it is, being completely locked up and watching your family leave, your wife and children, and not being able to do anything about it."

"I don't want a fat mexican woman beating the crap out of my son."

"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 also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself."