If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead.

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

We each have our own tour bus. We've never done that before.

We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.

The book is really, really dark, to the point where some people that I've talked to have said that it could be a series. And I'm like, Where? VH1? It's a little hard for VH1.

Each guy has his own space. We all end up in one of the other guy's rooms all the time. We always end up together, as far as people getting along.

The industry is a menace to artists.

Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.

Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.

I've got five kids and I'm married, Tommy's got two kids and he's been married, Vince just got married again, Mick's out of a relationship, Tommy's single as well. We've done a lot in our life, we've covered a lot of miles.

What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.

It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts.

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

We did something this year that was not based on animosity.

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead.

There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.

We were telling everybody we weren't getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit.

I don't want to jump through hoops for people.

Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.

Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old.

Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

As a lyricist, I'm really trying to raise my level of quality.

Beauty, to me, is kind, generous, and people that are humble.

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line.

Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

Even as a kid, I saw the world in my own way and thought most things that were different were beautiful and magical. Even things that other people thought were horrifying and disgusting and weird.

Every day, I wake up, and the first thing I think of is my kids.

Fans are so grateful when you go places they don't expect you to go.

For me, one of the things that I get excited about is getting in situations I shouldn't be in.

For me, to turn people on to new music, on to things that are going on in the world, is important.

For those that don't know, my sister was born with Down Syndrome, and she was institutionalized in the very early sixties. Me, being just a small boy and being shuffled around between my mother and grandparents, I never knew her.

Growing up in the '70s, it was only a few years before that when men started to grow their hair long. And in the '70s, people were pushing the envelope a little farther, with men having even more style and piercing both their ears and wearing makeup.

Hey, man, I like to look good; I wear make-up.

How can you have a rock n' roll circus without a midget?

How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

I can't stand people who try too hard.

I do believe that I'm an addict on one level or another at all times.

I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

I don't know if I believe in life after death so much as I believe that there is something out there.

I don't really care what people do.

I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.'

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

I have a wonderful assistant. I tell her I need four amputees and a midget, and she finds them.

I just think if I can go from being a homeless kid with a dream of being in the biggest band in the world and making that happen, I can do a lot of other cool stuff, too.