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It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression. — Nikki Sixx
It's really cool to know that there are so many people out there that are attached to me or projects that I've done to really feel that it's a personal relationship. — Nikki Sixx
There is nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home. When you've lost it all, that's when you finally realize that life is beautiful. — Nikki Sixx
There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do. — Nikki Sixx
There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up. — Nikki Sixx
It's time for new bands to step up because KISS and Mtley Cre, Aerosmith, The [Rolling] Stones ... we're not always gonna be here. Who's gonna replace us? There's no one out there. It's sad. — Nikki Sixx
I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There's nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve. — Nikki Sixx
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. — Nikki Sixx
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. — Nikki Sixx
Ryon posed the question in all their minds -what the fuck is he?
The love child of Criss Angel and Adam Lambert? Jaxon tossed back.
His friend gave a soft snort that might've been a laugh. With a little Nikki Sixx thrown in, sure. — J.D. Tyler
For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't have a father, it looked good to me. If I had read Johnny Thunders' book The Heroin Diaries, I don't think I would have done heroin. — Nikki Sixx
In life, when the baggage gets too heavy, you have to put it down. — Nikki Sixx
Alcohol, acid, cocaine ... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love. — Nikki Sixx
Addiction is a really hard thing to kick. — Nikki Sixx
I never understood the hit-single, quick-success, get-airplay mentality. — Nikki Sixx
I had to find the courage to turn my life around. — Nikki Sixx
Sometimes I think I should just buy a blow-up party doll. Same level of intelligence, plastic, and full of air.
The problem is, I'd probably fall in love. — Nikki Sixx
When I photograph someone, I want to shoot the subject and get them out of my studio so I can play with the photos and do all the stuff I want. — Nikki Sixx
Just let it happen and, I promise you, all that is magic will appear. — Nikki Sixx
For me, to turn people on to new music, on to things that are going on in the world, is important. — Nikki Sixx
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. — Nikki Sixx
I just love doing radio. I've learned to be more vulnerable through radio than even I've been through books and writing lyrics. It's a different type of experience where, if I'm writing a lyric, I can sort of hide behind it a little bit. — Nikki Sixx
Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea! — Nikki Sixx
It's interesting. People go to an animal shelter and pick a dog that's been kicked, beaten, and has lost a leg and an eye, and they'll take that dog home and give it love and support, but they don't do that with people. — Nikki Sixx
I have a wonderful assistant. I tell her I need four amputees and a midget, and she finds them. — Nikki Sixx
You want to love unconditionally everything you do, or don't do it. — Nikki Sixx
What's exciting about being an artist, still, and what I'm really finding is awesome is that you can do it until you drop. I don't care how many lines I have on my face - I'll keep doing it! — Nikki Sixx
The more I go onstage, the more quiet I am before, because I intend to go onstage and slaughter. — Nikki Sixx
I wanted to help him but I guess ultimately you can only slay the dragon yourself. All that I could do was help him sharpen his sword if he needed me to. — Nikki Sixx
After I binged last night -or was it tonight - I was convinced yet again that there were people coming to get me. It was more than just shadows and voices, more than just fantasies ... it was real, and I was scared to my core.
My bones were shaking ... m heart was pounding ... I thought I was going to explode. I'm glad I have you to talk to, to write this down. I tried to keep it all together, but then I gave in to the manes and became one with my insanity. — Nikki Sixx
In the end, the whole Internet thing kills me, because you can use it as a positive thing or you can read into all the negativity. And I think you've gotta put out positive energy, put out cool viral stuff, and then just stay out of people's opinions. — Nikki Sixx
When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band. — Nikki Sixx
When You've lost it all ... thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful. — Nikki Sixx
If I'm watching my favorite boxer, and he's just won the heavyweight championship of the world, and he retires, it kind of makes the guy a legend. — Nikki Sixx
The more confident you are, the more you can let go and believe that the people you've chosen to be in your circle are able to do what they say they're going to do and what they're really good at. It has made me a better band member, too. — Nikki Sixx
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. — Nikki Sixx
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. — Nikki Sixx
I can't make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do — Nikki Sixx
You can get through anything if you want it bad enough. — Nikki Sixx
My favorite moments are when the bass falls in the pocket with the drums, the guitar is on top just slicing it, and the melody is scraping across like a sidewinder shattering through the monitor. It's just, ahhh, I love it! That's the jones, the hit, the buzz right there. It gets me off. — Nikki Sixx
Let's just say I have expensive taste. — Nikki Sixx
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. — Nikki Sixx
Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it. — Nikki Sixx
It's hard to find vehicles for your music. — Nikki Sixx
There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll. — Nikki Sixx
It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts. — Nikki Sixx
Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn. — Nikki Sixx
Bravery and Stupidity are the same thing, the outcome determines your label. — Hayden Sixx
Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That's not me. No more. — Nikki Sixx
I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play very aggressively. I always have a distortion pedal in line, and I play less melodies and do more stuff against the guitars that create melodies. — Nikki Sixx
The other day I went to a movie with some friends, and they were like, 'Let's look it up on the Internet and see what people are saying,' and I was like, 'Man, that's messed up.' — Nikki Sixx
I don't fear death; I welcome it with open arms and a smirk. But until that wondrous day, I will continue to savor and celebrate all those who have graduated before me. — Nikki Sixx
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. — Nikki Sixx
I sort of have a dark, twisted, offbeat way of writing, which I see coming up in my kids. It's funny, on Halloween, one of my daughters said, "Halloween isn't supposed to be happy, dad, it's supposed to be dark. " No smiling pumpkins at the Sixx household! — Nikki Sixx
Beauty, to me, is kind, generous, and people that are humble. — Nikki Sixx
Hi. It's Nikki. I'm not here right now because I'm dead. — Nikki Sixx
Hey, man, I like to look good; I wear make-up. — Nikki Sixx
When I go into rehearsal rooms and meet with bands, they're genuinely excited to be with me because of what I've done as an artist, not because of anything else. There's that whole celebrity rock star thing, and artists are into artists who have been able to achieve success their way. — Nikki Sixx
It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out. — Nikki Sixx
I know some people who've gotten tattoos that they probably shouldn't have, like the name of somebody they were dating, and that never ends well. — Nikki Sixx
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. — Nikki Sixx
What's worse? Being strung out or being fat? — Nikki Sixx
Creativity is not linear, just like the earth is not flat ... If you keep going long enough you will always get back to where you started from. That is when you have lived a full life. That is the artist's path. — Nikki Sixx
When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland ... — Nikki Sixx
What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works. — Nikki Sixx
The thing is that I've known the guys from Motley Crue longer than just about everybody. — Nikki Sixx
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. — Nikki Sixx
I'm always willing to talk to somebody if they have something to say that is interesting. — Nikki Sixx
They say to keep what you have, you have to give it away. I believe that. I also believe that you can be cool as fuck, not give a fuck and fucking kick ass in life, and not be fucked up. I'm still the first person to say "Fuck you" but I'm faster to say "I love you." If life is what you make it, I've made mine great. It took a lot of hard work and if you need to, you can do it too. — Nikki Sixx
I remember, when I was a kid, listening to the radio and hearing 'Big Bad John' by Jimmy Dean - and it just blew me away. I used to sit there and call the radio stations and request that song. And then the Beatles were obviously out already, but I really didn't know about the Beatles. — Nikki Sixx
Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique. — Nikki Sixx
I am pushing you, even if it's off a cliff, to create. Write that book, that song; pore over the concept of redecorating your life. I meet people all the time who say they're not creative. Bullshit, motherfuckers, you are creative. — Nikki Sixx
Politicians really worry about being politically correct. — Nikki Sixx
We each have our own tour bus. We've never done that before. — Nikki Sixx
I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to leave on the planet. I just feel like I'm not there yet. I feel like I am just getting started. — Nikki Sixx
I'm a sponge for information. — Nikki Sixx
I am the outcast come home to roost and the eggs of tomorrow are incubating in my fame. You hate me, you love me, you made me, and now I am in you. I am like that disease brewing in your loins and I think you like it ... — Nikki Sixx
Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible. — Nikki Sixx
A Short Alternative Medical Dictionary
Definitions courtesy of Dr Lemuel Pillmeister (also known as Lemmy)
Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.
Cocaine - Peruvian Marching Powder. A stimulant that has the extraordinary effect that the more you do, the more you laugh out of context.
Depression - When everything you laugh at is miserable and you can't seem to stop.
Heroin - A drug that helps you to escape reality, while making it much harder to cope when you are recaptured.
Psychosis - When everybody turns into tiny dolls and they have needles in their mouths and they hate you and you don't care because you have THE KNIFE! AHAHAHAHAHAHA! — Nikki Sixx
I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser. — Nikki Sixx
I listen to NPR a lot. I love that. — Nikki Sixx
I look back at things I said when I was younger - it was bulls - t. You do what you have to do to go where you have to go, but I look back and I don't believe what that guy was saying. — Nikki Sixx
I understand quarterly billing, how the record companies run. — Nikki Sixx
When I know too much I get bored too fast. — Nikki Sixx
Radio stations play what they believe is in, and they all talk to each other. — Nikki Sixx
Like all artists, I go through creative spurts. — Nikki Sixx
If I could make a record in two minutes and thirty seconds, I'd do it. I want the creativity, and I don't give a f - k about the snare sound. — Nikki Sixx
There's a sound with Motley Crue, and it comes with Vince's voice, which is such an important part of the show, and Mick's guitar. And the way Tommy and me play together is an important part of it. — Nikki Sixx
I love the way my tattoos look. I especially love Japanese-style tattoos and being completely sleeved by them, so it's not just these little individual and unrelated pieces, but everything's working together to create a larger design. — Nikki Sixx
I'll play anyone in Uno and crush them. — Nikki Sixx
Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection. — Nikki Sixx
I don't want to jump through hoops for people. — Nikki Sixx