Quotes by Nikki Sixx

Alcohol, acid, cocaine, they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.

Addiction- When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

Personal chemistry forges the way for musical chemistry.

Nothing that Robert Plant does will ever equal Led Zeppelin, but that doesn't mean he's going to stop being creative. Jimmy Page has so many incredibly cool projects, but it's not Led Zeppelin; there will only ever be one Led Zeppelin.

Addiction -- When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

In life, when the baggage gets too heavy, you have to put it down.

The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.

Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.

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.

At birth we are very much like a new hard drive -- no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive that starts the corruption of the files.

A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.

There's really only one true path to recovery that's using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality).

I've got my fingers in many pies and I'm very excited about creating stuff and watching it blossom and bloom and harvest it and get on with the next thing.

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.

Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

What's worse? Being strung out or being fat?

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.

When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.

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.

We want to keep extending our brand into different places, into movies and soundtracks and our music will live on through licensing and our brand lives on through merchandise and new generations will get to wear our clothing and our T-shirts and stuff that's associated with us.

I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white pictiures and color distracts usually from the honesty.

People want to see the car crash instead of the race. But, when you're the one in the car that's crashing, it's not much fun. I'm enjoying the race.

Everybody needs some real rock in their lives...whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones...or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold...it's out there.

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.

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing for the next journey. If we acknowledge death as the beginning, then how can we fear it?

Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.

President George Washington used to wear a wig and make-up. I mean, c'mon, if he could do it, I can do it.

Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.

You might as well learn about sex from Motley Crue than your parents because it's a lot more interesting.

Life can be cruel. It´s been my struggle, my personal battle, my obsession to make people see that different isn´t always bad.

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.

Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.

In my own life I like to be poised and have a positive outlook on life, and I'm leading by example to my children and people around me.

I have always believed that if you are honest in what you do, continually reinvent yourself at the same time, and there's respect amongst your band members, then you will be respected.

When I first started seeing (the show) come together, I was blown away. It is unbelievable. And to see Vince singing, and behind him girls hanging by chains, and Harleys on the stage and the pyrotechnics going it's like, this is what I want to see in rock 'n' roll.

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.

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.

You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise, as ironic and Zen Buddhist and satanic as it sounds!

Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions.

The thing is that I've known the guys from Motley Crue longer than just about everybody.

Do I think anything I ever do will be as big as Motley Crue? It's impossible.

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.

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.

I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones.

There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.

Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should see a shrink. Then she started crying and I started laughing.

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.

I was so happy every morning when I woke up that I was pissing smiley faces.

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.

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.

I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.

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.

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!

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.

When You've lost it all....thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful.

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!

Raw and honest is what I go for in my style of shooting. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story... But together is raw honesty.

Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!

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 youve gotta put out positive energy, put out cool viral stuff, and then just stay out of peoples opinions.

If you leave me in a room long enough, I'll redecorate the room.

When the addict gets recovery, his family gets recovery, right?

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.

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.

When you have so many things, and you have no idea why, you think, 'Maybe I'm supposed to do things for other people.'

I'm not religious, but by nature I am spiritual. I'm an artist, and creativity seems to go hand in hand with spirituality. But I have a knee-jerk reaction against organized religions. Actually, I have knee-jerk reactions against anything that's organized.

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.

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.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

My studio, nicknamed 'Funny Farm,' is in a hidden location. It's very private. Not only do I create my photography there, but it is also where I write my books and create music.

Let's just say I have expensive taste.

Rock n' roll is dirty, and it's bad, and it's either clever or it's not clever.

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.

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

I'm very interested in architecture.

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

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.

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

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.

I understand quarterly billing, how the record companies run.

They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles.

It's getting harder and harder to feel inspired to spend six months on a record.

It's hard to find vehicles for your music.

The industry needs to be run by artists, because we are the only people that care about art.

You don't base records on success; you base it on creativity.

Radio stations play what they believe is in, and they all talk to each other.

The funny thing is that when you have any form of presentation to your band, meaning you have the foresight to see outside of your creativity, you have a bigger vision.

I think that music is a lifestyle that you sort of intravenously plug into and unplug from when you do and don't need it. Some people live it 10 hours a day, some on weekends. It's no more important or non-important than that.

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

My mom, you know, took off when I was about 6. What ended up happening is I ended up being with my grandparents.

I think -- I honestly think that my story is not 100 percent that unique. I think that I'm -- just the whole rock star part kind of throws an interesting twist on it.

I'm able to make decisions even in the face of adversity.

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

You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.

You can't lie to your audience. You can't lie to your fans.