In between touring with Motley Crüe and getting tattoos Tommy has managed to fit in a new solo album, a reality TV show and a Fused interview. Way to go dude!
What does ‘Tommyland’ mean to you?
It’s my dark little street that I live on. It’s like Disneyland that’s gone terribly wrong. It’s a fun place, like I started Tommyland when I named my house Tommyland, because to me it was the ultimate adult playground. There’s swings over the piano, sex swings in the bedroom, a Starbucks coffee thing in the bar, and a bar in a recording studio, a dirt bike track in the back to ride Dirt Bikes and swimming pools, Koi ponds and Japanese gardens. It’s like the ultimate adult playground and that’s where Tommyland came from. So I just kinda put that into my music or book or whatever.
You should open a theme park.
I thought about this. How fun would that be? Like a really crazy rock‘n’roll madhouse. Yeah, we’ll ride on rollercoasters with naked girls and their titties are flapping around all over the place, it’d be genius, fucking genius. That’s a great idea, I’m gonna work on that. I’ll have it ready in probably less than a year.
How did you get to work with Nick Carter?
He blew my mind and I get asked this question all time, like: “Nick Carter?” And they look at me with big question marks, and I’m like: “Wait a minute, you guys don’t understand.” I met this guy, he asked me to write some songs for his solo record and I had the same reaction that everybody does: “Really?” So I meet with him and I bring a couple of things that I think will be great for him, so we have dinner, a couple of drinks, we go out to his car and I pull out the CD changer and there’s AC/DC, Zeppelin, Black Sabbath records, I mean, it was like: “What?” And he’s like: “Dude, I love rock‘n’roll music. I love it.” And that blew my mind. Anyway, we went to my house and recorded a couple of songs for his solo record. Then I think a month or two went by and he got together with the Backstreet Boys, so he’s aborted the solo record for now, and I’ve got these two great songs that we worked on at my house and so I put one of them on the record. That guy partied harder than anybody that was in the studio, and I had everybody, I had Slash, Navarro and all these crazy cats in there and he’s a frigging maniac. He’s nothing like you would imagine.
What about you? Is there a difference between the mythological and the real Tommy? Do you feel misunderstood?
Yeah sometimes. I think that’s the reason I did the TV show and wrote the book, because what people know about me up until before the book and the TV show is just tiny little blibs of information. They see you on a tabloid TV show or read a little article in a rock magazine or hear something on the radio. They’re all small little things and I really wanted to write a book and just let everyone really get to know who Tommy is, Tommy not Tommy Lee. I wanted people to see the real me, see me struggle and try to do well and sometimes fail. I’m normal, I think sometimes people think you’re some superhero and you’re not.
Is this the time to cut all the crap out of your life?
Yeah, this would be the part of the rollercoaster ride where it’s the good part. But that’s cool I mean you can’t really appreciate the good times unless you’ve had some speed bumps and some shitty times. I like that it’s always changing and this is one of those upswings and we’re getting ready to do the big giant loop.
How far has ‘The Dirt’ movie evolved?
It is gonna happen. We had David Fincher on line for a minute there, and then he ended up taking some crazy movie that’s gonna take him two years to shoot, so he’s no longer available. We’re now looking at different directors, but it will happen some time, probably late next year.
If you keep close to the book it should be rated XXX shouldn´t it?
I don’t know. We gotta make sure we keep it real like that and not some watered down, PG-13 shit. It’s gonna have to be R or X, I don’t know, we’re gonna have to figure that out.
Are you going to be in it as well?
I don’t know what we’re gonna do about that. Me personally I would love Johnny Depp, he is my favourite, I love everything that guy does. I would love him to play me. I think he is the best ever and I like everything that that guy’s ever done, his acting is incredible. I just think it’d be fun, really cool.
What made you go through the x-ray-machine at Cologne airport?
I hate going to the fucking airport. I absolutely hate it. I’ve got two things that make me crazy: Traffic and the airport. I’ll do anything in my power, I’ll pay whatever money it takes to fly private, or I’ll drive five hours just to avoid going to the airport. And a guy like me, when you get to the airport my nipples are pierced, you got necklaces on, wallet chains, cigarettes, and it takes forever to take all the shit off and some guy is busting your balls: “Take your shoes off!” And I was like: “You know what? Fuck it.” I jumped on the conveyor belt and ran right through the x-ray machine and went: “Fuck it!” I didn’t feel so good though after it. I think those x-ray machines are two or four times more powerful than a regular x-ray, and I didn’t feel so good. Something probably happened; I’m probably sterile now or something. I don’t know. It was really cool though because I got it all on film. I thought: “OK, one of two things are gonna happen here, either I’m gonna go to jail for doing this or they’re gonna be cool”, and they were laughing their asses off at the airport. They were like: “That dude is fucking crazy”.
Last question: Who is your hot babe of 2005?
My current dream girl? I spent a night with Eva Langoria, she is fucking amazing. She is so hot and she’s got cute feet, her toes are great. But the Victoria’s Secret model, Adriana Lima, Brazilian. I want that! I want that!!!
Tommyland The Ride is out now