Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?'

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

I take the best of all the styles I like and put them together in one package.

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.'

No, I don't have a problem with my temper.

I've always been kind of a - you know, I have my moments, where I can be Tommy, and then I flip a switch; when you're on stage, you turn into this other personality.

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

It's been a while since I've studied: since high school. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.

I didn't have the opportunity to go to college. I was busy touring since the age of 17.

The horses forced into the chuckwagon races die of heart attacks, broken necks, broken legs, and other injuries. It'd be easy to get off on western tradition without this bloody spectacle. Dude, it's the Old West, not ancient Rome!