![]() Sometimes I get a bad review and I come into the band dressing room and I go, "You gotta hear this one!" And everybody's sitting around laughing while the critic's at home going, "I really showed those guys." And we're like, "We don't care!" And I didn't care in my teenage years. I don't care if you don't like us.” I've never cared about a bad review. With Motley Crue, your entire life inspired the songs on your first album.Īll those songs, all those lyrics, that young kid playing down in Hollywood, fighting with the punks, trying to carve my band London's own path, led to this that was built on the foundation of imagination, where it's like, “I can do anything. ![]() People always say bands have the luxury of time to workshop their craft before they put out their debut album. When did it happen, and what were the events that led up to that? Mine started with an AM radio, and then an FM radio and a local Idaho radio station. Obviously he went, “This is what I'm gonna do.” Bill Gates, Keith Richards, Nikki Sixx. When did LeBron James ? It had to be in his first 21 years. It was like, “I need to go back to the very, very beginning, the coming of age and discovery of music.” You know, a lot's been talked about Motley Crue and about recovery in my case, and I wanted to kind of explore the idea that we're all so much alike in those first 21 years. And one of the lines says, “I'm sorry, once I started to fly, I forgot how to stop.” And that was the moment that The First 21 popped out. I was just sitting there, and I had this thought: “Where did everybody go?” And I went inside, and I wrote this kind of a couplet thing, which turned into a poem for my family. And I was sitting on the back of our property, and where we live, you can't see - we're not in suburbia, we're in the country on top of a mountain, and it's two hours as the crow flies from where I grew up. I started thinking about that, and I was about ready to move forward with it, and we had moved to Wyoming. It really bums me out when I see somebody work their whole life - whether it's an NFL player or racecar driver or musician or actor - and they spend their whole life crafting their craft, and then they hit the big time, and then a few years later it's like, "So-and-so went bankrupt." And so I wanted to talk about that and how I've been able to weather the financial storms that happen over a 40-year career, the ups and downs and some advice. I was originally interested in writing a bit of a financial advice book. ![]() How did the idea for this book first come about? Today’s ‘Quordle’ Answers And Clues For Tuesday, May 9
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