Ed Lee Quotes

I'm really a cool, mellow guy. I'm not as crazy as everybody thinks.

There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.

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.

Getting married in four days was the biggest... mistake I've ever made. I have two beautiful kids, but... how can you know somebody in four days? Bonehead.

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

Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.

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

It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.

When I got home from The Ozzfest in September 2000 with Methods... I just locked myself in my house and I started writing.

I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team.

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

Sometimes when you cut your bed tracks right off the bat, you don't really know where the vocal is landing and where the background vocals are, and other loops and stuff that are going on.

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.

Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time.

You know what, I just write what I feel.

At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.

I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.

If it's successful and it sounds awesome, and looks killer live, then I guess I can pat myself on the back and take all the credit too.

How mighty, how great the One must be, I thought, to send the heavens careening, and yet hear the cry of a single heart.

The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar -- and so very sad: What is this you have done?

What is life without laughter?

Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

It just supports my personal opinion that he's a wacko

Everything is as it should be.

Remember the White Knight.

She was a thin woman in a mustard-yellow suit, with a yellowish complexion, short-cropped rusty red hair, and a stiff posture. She reminded Reynie of a giant walking pencil.

In other words, you are our last possible hope. You are our only hope.

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.

I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.

Abraham Lincoln had great clarity of mind and expression, and he worked to make it clearer -reading Euclid in his early 30s to train his mind.

After I published a book called Lincoln's Virtues a wit said that my next book should be Lincoln's Vices. But in my opinion that would be a short book!

Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had a terrific memory.

There was specific constitutional provision for emergency measures in the case that Abraham Lincoln faced - an insurrection - which no other president has faced.

The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the rebels. If Robert E.Lee had stayed with his country the story would have been different.

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

A conditioned mind is never a free mind.

The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.

Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!

Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

The doubters said, "Man can not fly, " The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try, " And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Part of me shall dwell in my daughter to call upon in times of need of course.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.

Absolution exists, call it Christian or whatever. It’s far older than any creed, and one of our blessings.