Nikki Sixx Quotations | Page 2

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.'

What can I say that will make people that are in recovery want to stand up and support Recovery Month? A friend of mine said, 'You know, the fact that you did a really honest book and it changed people's lives, that's something to talk about.'

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.

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

Every day, I wake up, and the first thing I think of is my kids.

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.

For me, to turn people on to new music, on to things that are going on in the world, is important.

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

It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.

As a lyricist, I'm really trying to raise my level of quality.

Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.

Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.

I know I'd feel emotional if one of my favorite bands was going out.

I love women. My life revolves around them.

It's hard to find vehicles for your music.

Let me explain something: I'm not incredibly rich.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

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

Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.

When Ozzy calls and asks you to go on tour, you say, 'When do I start?'

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

I never understood the hit-single, quick-success, get-airplay mentality.

I understand quarterly billing, how the record companies run.

When it comes to putting together a new show, we always push the envelope, and that's part of Motley Crue's legacy.

The book is really, really dark, to the point where some people that I've talked to have said that it could be a series. And I'm like, Where? VH1? It's a little hard for VH1.

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.

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.

We've all grown up a lot, and we realize that small stuff is just small stuff, and we look at the big picture on every level. We think about the future, we think about music, and how to make music the best we can. There's nothing petty going on. It's very focused.

When we were younger, you know, small stuff was small stuff. But we turned it into big stuff. It's just part of being young.

We decided the first part of the show would be our earlier stuff. And then we would come out for the second half, blasting more radio-oriented stuff, the hits, I guess. It gives us the opportunity to put the music together.

We're across the street from the Erotica Museum and Frederick's of Hollywood. This is a perfect place for us to be.

I'd like to respond to rumors that I died yesterday ... I mean, c'mon, be patient! My day will come but it hasn't yet!

He will be able to perform, but can't really jump around until it heals. Luckily, we have a few days off here and there for him to recover.

We are from Hollywood, you know that's where we started.

I'm sober, and I'm sick. I'm sick in the head. And all that support and all that great stuff around me allows my artistic side to be even more demented.

We just didn't give a f?-. We did things our way, and we had a hell of a good time doing it.

You know, we've all talked about how mostly, more than anything, we just really wanted to have a good time. And I think that, you know, this tour has really turned out to be a lot of fun for us as band members and as friends. You know, we've been friends for forever.

When I first started seeing it come together, I was just blown away.

We had sort of Spinal Tap moment in Europe . . . when I caught on fire. Vince almost had to stop singing, he was laughing so hard.

But the other thing besides that which is true is that we have been rediscovered or discovered by a new audience.

You can't do this, you can't take a picture of someone who has built their image up, I don't care who it is. You can't use that for your business.

We fit in there with all the dead movie stars.

We go to do the Billboard Music Awards to be a presenter, and we walk on stage, and we get a standing ovation from the industry.

Vince has said over and over, you know, rock 'n' roll never really goes away,

Vince feels horrible, ... He wanted to finish the show but I think it's better he didn't, in the big picture. From all four of us, we're very sorry and will be back to Atlanta. No shows will be canceled.

And there's one thing that we all agree on in the band, which is: It's more important to have a great record than to rush getting it out.

And, you know, there's a brutality to us when we're together,

They're the Liz Taylor and Richard Burton of our era.

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.

Everyone felt as if they were doing something really important. This song, both musically and lyrically, relates to many of the things that are happening now, as the hardest hit areas set out to rebuild.

Everybody was paranoid that it was going to be the same as it used to be. People had cold feet. They weren't sure. It's like getting back into a relationship that didn't work out real well. Once we got back in, we realized why it was so magical, but it took some prodding and some time, and everything just sort of worked itself out organically.

SIXX: A.M. is a passion project. I think when you do things like that and put your heart into them and do your best and don't necessarily put them on a marketing grid, that's when things turn out the best.

I mean, you can hate us. I don't care if you hate us, but no one will ever sound like us.

I know he had a good time there.

I don't think any of us realized how much work and how intense of a show it would be until we got into preproduction here in Los Angeles,

How have you guys been since we've been gone?

I'm finding that people reading the book [ The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying, "You came from one background, I came from this background - you were a rock star, I was a CEO. I didn't have a heroin/coke problem, but I had a pill problem. But I also fell from grace, didn't know how to get recovery, and I am now in recovery." People tell me that their kids read it and told them they'll never do drugs - "This book really shows me where it goes."

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

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.

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 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!

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.

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.

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

There's nothin like a trail of ßlooÐ to finÐ your way ßack home

I love Starbucks. Maybe thats a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. Its what gets me out of bed in the morning.

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

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?

UNUSED LYRIC I’ve never been to Eden But it’s nice I hear tell When I die I’ll go to heaven ’Cause I’ve done my time in hell

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.

The industry is a menace to artists.

I'll play anyone in Uno and crush them.

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.

Personal chemistry forges the way for musical chemistry.

Photography is an individual passion of mine. I don't get paid to do it, although people offer me money. I do it because I love it, and if there's no money attached, I don't have to do anything. It's my weekend away, my vacation, whether it's an hour or five hours or editing photos on my laptop in the middle of the night. It gives me relief from all the other stuff.

When I'm onstage, I'm more in the audience in my head than I am on the stage.

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

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.

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.

The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That's why they have a producer and engineer - to pull the magic out of them and make them sound so great.

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.

The more I go onstage, the more quiet I am before, because I intend to go onstage and slaughter.

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!

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.

I don't like to write music by myself anymore. It's boring. I want the jamming, the push and pull, and the excitement that comes with it.

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'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.

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.

Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you’re lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.

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…

It says that alcoholism is a disease, and that it gets passed on from generation to generation. I've told my kids about that: "You've got the crazy gene in you, guys. When it comes time to kick back with the buddies, drink a beer, and watch a football game, just realize that there will be a day when that thing turns on you. So you better keep an eye on it".

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.

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.

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

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

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.

when you can’t climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home…

Hi. It's Nikki. I'm not here right now because I'm dead.

A lot can happen [ because of the dysfunctional family]. People don't look at that. They think, "Oh, my kids are going to be fine. My kids are resilient." But at a certain point, the damage starts. They start to feel pain - and when they feel bad, they start to take painkillers. We want to kill the pain.

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