Tommy Lee > Quotes

“Just because we are wearing lipstick doesn't mean we can't kick your ass!”
― Tommy Lee

“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”
― Tommy Lee

“So there we were shooting Jack Daniels into our veins, like what the fuck we can just drink it.”
― Tommy Lee

“On Ecstasy, Joan Rivers looks like Pamela Anderson, so imagine what Pamela Anderson looked like.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“We thought we had elevated animal behavior to an art form. But then we met Ozzy.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“If you show up late [for anger management], you don't get credit for the class, which made that car ride even more of a test of your temper. Being late was great-you could leave if you wanted to, but that wasn't going to help you at all. I was late a few times and I always stayed, hoping to get credit for good behavior. I never did, and that made me really fucking angry. Thank God I was learning how to deal with that.”
― Tommy Lee, Tommyland

“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.”
― Tommy Lee

“Fate, however, has a way of finding your vulnerabilities where you least expect them, illuminating them so that you realize how glaringly obvious they are, and then mercilessly driving a spike straight into their most delicate center.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“There was one dude in a jeans jacket who I swear to God shit in his pants when all of a sudden I was inches away from his face playing drums in the air.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“One day, after practice, he came up behind me, tapped me on the shoulder, and as I turned around, he sucker-punched me and relocated my nose to the other side of my face. What up, Mr. Drum Captain? How's your drumming going, bro? Played any arenas lately?”
― Tommy Lee, Tommyland

“The angry man will defeat Himself in battle As well as in life.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“Pamela Anderson: 'He called and called, leaving about twenty messages, just drunk dialing. One of them was him singing his version of the Oscar Mayer theme song:

"My baloney has a first name, it's L-A-R-G-E. My baloney has a second name, it's P-E-N-I-S. I like to use it every day and if you ask me why, I'll saaay, 'Cuz my Large Penis has a way with P-U-S-S-Y today!"

Actually that was the message that got me interested.”
― Tommy Lee, Tommyland

“But what everybody always loved Mötley Crüe for was being a fucking decadent band: for being able to walk in a room and inhale all the alcohol, girls, pills, and trouble in sight.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“I announced to everyone that I was embarking on a solo tour. Not a music tour, but a tour of drugs and prostitutes.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“Pharrell Williams: '[Tommy Lee] is a great drummer with a lot of style. He keeps his chops up in terms of technique and his style in drumming; his chops are very sharp. Also, 'Pour Some sugar on Me' can be played in the middle of any hip-hop party. I love that.'

Man, that's awesome that Pharrell paid respect. I've always loved his shit, ever since 'When Doves Cry'. Oh, wait, my bad. Pharrell is that producer guy from Atlanta who dates Janet Jackson. The little guy, right? Discovered Kris Kross. Nice. Thanks, bro.”
― Tommy Lee, Tommyland

“If there’s one genetic trait that automatically disqualifies a man from being able to rock, it’s curly hair. Nobody cool has curly hair; people like Richard Simmons, the guy from Greatest American Hero, and the singer from REO Speedwagon have curls. The only exceptions are Ian Hunter from Mott the Hoople, whose hair is more tangled than curly, and Slash, but his hair is fuzzy and that’s cool.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“I just wanted peace and quiet. So I waded into the ocean with a bellar in my hand. The waves were cold and kept smacking my clothes, higher and higher, until they knocked my drink out of my hand. Soon, my hair was wet and sticking to the back of my neck. Then I blacked out.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“Nowadays, I don’t believe in the Christian concept of a God who created people for the sole purpose of judging and punishing them. After all, if one of the commandments is “Thou shalt not kill,” does that make God a hypocrite when he does things like flooding the world or destroying Sodom and Gomorrah?”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“I understood then why rock stars have such big egos: from the stage, the world is just one faceless, shirtless, obedient mass, as far as the eye can see.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“But, unlike us, Ozzy had a restraint, a limit, a conscience, a brake. And that restraint came in the form of a homely, rotund little British woman whose very name sets lips trembling and knees knocking: Sharon Osbourne, a shitkicker and disciplinarian like no other we had ever met, a woman whose presence could in an instant send us reeling back to our childhood fear of authority.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“Those words—“Trust me, I’m a junkie”—should have been a clue right there.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“Silence equals death.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“Our image, our attitude, and our message was as antiauthority, proshock, and indulgent as you could get. It didn't hurt that we looked insane, that we were insane, and that all of us, separately and especially together, were trouble magnets.”
― Tommy Lee, Tommyland

“Now that I look back on it, I realize how naïve and innocent I was. There were no jets or sold-out stadiums then, no mansions or Ferraris. There were no overdoses or orgies with guitar necks stuck up some chick's ass. I was just some cocky little kid in a club who, like so many others before and after him, thought that a sore prick and burning nostrils meant he was king of the world.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“A funny thing about girls, though, is that the more you do wrong, the more they like you.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“If people tell you no or assure you that you only have one option in any situation, trust me, they’re lying.”
― Tommy Lee, Tommyland

“They were asking me about my life, suggesting that I was insane, while they probably head up pedophilia rings.”
― Tommy Lee, Tommyland

“We were always about the rebellion at the heart of America not only because we lived that way but also because rock-and-roll has always been salvation for horny, aggressive teenagers as much as it's always been nothing but a fucking racket to their parents.”
― Tommy Lee, Tommyland

“SIGUR ROS”
― Tommy Lee, Tommyland

“I was partying without any thought for consequences because, to me, consequences didn't exist. We were Mötley Crüe, we had a platinum record, and we were bigger than the New York Dolls ever were. We were young, fucked up, and worshipped for it. Words like 'consequences', 'responsibility', 'morality' and 'self-control' didn't apply to us. Or so we thought.”
― Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band