Tommy Lee
Greek American and Welsh American Heavy Metal musician.
Whether it's crazy, fun stuff or bad- my life has been really fun and really exciting definitely never been dull.
There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.
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 herself, pulled over to the side and she just died in her car.
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 think in the last year or so I've gotten good at not letting it bother me, just doing what I do, and not thinking about everybody else so much.
I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.
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.
Well, some people die and then they sell more records, go figure.
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.
I check into hotels under my alias, Mr. Happy.
When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
I want to hear melody I want people to sing to my music.
I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.
Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.
I got it: stay away from cocaine and heroin.
It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.
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.
At least for me, everything I need is right inside here. I don't need anything.
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.
We had toga parties. You name it we did it.