Tommy Lee Quotes

You're always thinking about making new music.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.

I love going into the studio with just an idea of the direction. Like, I want this tempo... I love to start from scratch, and the tracks sort of take on a life of their own.

To me, being in the studio is one of the most exciting parts about being an artist.

I think, now that I've been writing songs in general, whether it's for the group or for me, I definitely feel like I got a little trigger happy, because it was so exciting to have production and create and put a lot in there.

'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.

It's easy for me to write songs but hard for me to write an album; that's been my experience.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

I like to tinkle at my piano when I'm working out a new song - I just put my fingers down and see what comes out.

Even when I'm making my own solo records, I'm collaborating with people. It keeps things interesting for me.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

I live a normal life. But I'm always thinking about what I'm going to do next, musically. 'Do I need a fresh producer? What was Peter Gabriel doing when he was 32?'

I like people that can strap on a guitar and don't sweat the fact that you have to come up with a song in an hour. I want to work with someone who won't feel like they have to play along with Jason Molina. I want them to just have the confidence.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically.

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

I'm never too ambitious when I go into the studio. I always know that I'm just going into the studio to work on or try to develop an idea that I have for a song.