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

I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. The things that sound like they might be Crue, I put aside on my hard drive and keep them in that pile.

Too many drummers sit at the back covered in drums, and you never see them.

I'm driven by music. It's in my blood, and I've never been able to stay away from it for too long.

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.

Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse.

I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge of a drum.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

There's no new news.

Playing upside down is insane. It's two or three times more difficult than what's normal. Your feet want to come off the pedals, your arms want to drop down - all of your body is fighting gravity.

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 need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.

I announced to everyone that I was embarking on a solo tour. Not a music tour, but a tour of drugs and prostitutes.

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.

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.

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.

Trust me: all of us walk around and look at each other, and without saying it, we all know we're thinking, 'Really dude? Were still here!' and pinch ourselves. Typically, careers have short life span, 10 years if you're lucky, so what we've done is amazing.

I wouldn't specifically say rock n' roll is dead, but I don't see a lot of charismatic performers in the way of new blood who are edgy and dangerous on stage, like Marilyn Manson, who you never quite know if he's going to make it through his own show.

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.

I got really frustrated in jail, and I was like, 'Man, I love what I've done, and I love the mark I've made on rock n' roll history'... and I sat there, and I got really depressed, thinking, 'I gotta make a move... do something fresh and new.'

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

You are your best thing

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.

Love is never any better than the lover.

What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

He wants to put his story next to hers.

It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

Lonely was much better than alone.