Top 60 Tommy Lee Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You know what the most destructive force in the universe is? Regret.”

— Tommy Lee

2. “It’s all about the music. For me, that’s truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That’s definitely me.”

— Tommy Lee

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

— Tommy Lee

4. “I hate rude behavior in a man. I won’t tolerate it.”

— Tommy Lee

5. “The angry man will defeat Himself in battle As well as in life.”

— Tommy Lee

6. “Just because we are wearing lipstick doesn’t mean we can’t kick your ass!”

— Tommy Lee

7. “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.”

— Tommy Lee

8. “The Radiohead record, The Bends is my all-time favorite record on the planet.”

— Tommy Lee

9. “I don’t really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.”

— Tommy Lee

10. “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

11. “Aerosmith’s ‘Rocks’ is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time.”

— Tommy Lee

12. “I got it: stay away from cocaine and heroin.”

— Tommy Lee

13. “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.”

— Tommy Lee

14. “We thought we had elevated animal behavior to an art form. But then we met Ozzy.”

— Tommy Lee

15. “Single’s fun – you don’t have to check in with your girl, but it’s not easy. I do get lonely.”

— Tommy Lee

16. “I’m happy doing what I’m doing, and if you have that kind of attitude then everything else from there on is a bonus.”

— Tommy Lee

17. “I lived up on Kanan and Mulholland. It’s a bit of a drive, but once you get there, the horses, vineyards, it’s just so peaceful.”

— Tommy Lee

18. “The record is definitely a musical journey. It’s kind of all over the place, which I like.”

— Tommy Lee

19. “It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.”

— Tommy Lee

20. “I think that when I did the Methods Of Mayhem record, some of the hip-hop stuff probably freaked a lot of Motley Crue fans out.”

— Tommy Lee

21. “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.”

— Tommy Lee

22. “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

23. “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.”

— Tommy Lee

24. “I’m really a cool, mellow guy. I’m not as crazy as everybody thinks.”

— Tommy Lee

25. “Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?”

— Tommy Lee

26. “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

27. “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

28. “I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.”

— Tommy Lee

29. “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

30. “You know what’s weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.”

— Tommy Lee

31. “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

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

— Tommy Lee

33. “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.”

— Tommy Lee

34. “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

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35. “But you know what I’m trying to say, it’s that there’s a couple of really dangerous drugs out there and I’ve lost some friends to them.”

— Tommy Lee

36. “I’m not Superman. I can’t handle all of these women.”

— Tommy Lee

37. “Sometimes when you have children they’re the opposites of you.”

— Tommy Lee

38. “That’s the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help.”

— Tommy Lee

39. “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.”

— Tommy Lee

40. “I start my own frat, and try out for the women’s swim team.”

— Tommy Lee

41. “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

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

— Tommy Lee

43. “It’s always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It’s an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.”

— Tommy Lee

44. “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.”

— Tommy Lee

45. “Well, some people die and then they sell more records, go figure.”

— Tommy Lee

46. “I still play but for some reason, I am having so much fun playing guitar and singing that I don’t really miss it because I’ve done it for so long like twenty-something years with Motley.”

— Tommy Lee

47. “There’s Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I’m wearing several hats these days.”

— Tommy Lee

48. “The only thing that’s changed for me is that I’ve figured out a new way to do this; when I go to record, I like to do the drums last, if that makes any sense to you.”

— Tommy Lee

49. “I don’t have a problem with my temper.”

— Tommy Lee

50. “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.”

— Tommy Lee