Nikki Sixx Quotes

#1. What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.

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

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#3. It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts.

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

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#5. Live in the moment. Moments make history.

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#6. 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.

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

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

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. For me, one of the things that I get excited about is getting in situations I shouldn't be in.

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#12. 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.

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#13. We all fall off the wagon. It's only one day; it's not the rest of your life. Pick yourself up and go again.

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

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#15. 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!

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#16. 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.

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

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#18. I listen to NPR a lot. I love that.

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#19. 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.

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#20. We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.

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#21. 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.

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#22. 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.

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

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#24. I'm not bothered by my appearance.

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#25. Like Hemingway said, the only thing that could spoil a day was people.

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#26. We each have our own tour bus. We've never done that before.

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#27. The industry is a menace to artists.

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#28. What's scummy about the music industry is that everybody loves you when you're dead.

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#29. What inspires me? I am so inspired every day. I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love.

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

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#31. Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old.

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#32. What's worse? Being strung out or being fat?

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#33. I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

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#34. 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 ...

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#35. 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.

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#36. It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

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#37. 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.

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#38. 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.

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#39. 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.

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#40. When you die, every single muscle in your body hurts. Your body has closed down because it thinks it's done, and when it gets rebooted, every inch of you hurts. Plus I'd had the shit beaten out of me with a baseball bat.

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

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#42. 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.

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

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#44. There's no difference if you're a supermodel or if you've lost both your legs. What are you doing that's beautiful or ugly on the inside?

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#45. 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.

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

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#47. 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.

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#48. My dick didn't seem to be aware that she was there. She kept asking me what was wrong, and I was so out of it that I thought she meant what was wrong with the world, so I started talking about global poverty and shit. I'm not surprised she left. I suspect she won't be coming back.

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#49. You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

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#50. 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.'

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

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

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#53. 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.

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#54. There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

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#55. I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods.

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#56. 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.

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#57. Reflecting back, we all make mistakes; we all go through our stuff - relationships, financial, all kinds of stuff - and if you can grow from that and pass that message on, it's a pretty cool thing.

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#58. Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

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

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

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#61. 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.'

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#62. 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.

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#63. If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

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#64. Some kid gets his first iPhone, signs up to Twitter, and then tweets, 'Nikki Sixx sucks.' And I'm supposed to take that personally.

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#65. Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

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#66. 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.

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#67. I've got five kids and I'm married, Tommy's got two kids and he's been married, Vince just got married again, Mick's out of a relationship, Tommy's single as well. We've done a lot in our life, we've covered a lot of miles.

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

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#69. Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.

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#70. 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.

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#71. 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.

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

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#73. In '85, I went through rehab and I wasn't ready. If you're not ready, you're not ready. You don't want to hear the truth, and you're gonna keep doing what you keep doing.

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#74. 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.

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#75. 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.

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#76. People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

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#77. 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!

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#78. I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

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#79. One thing I've always loved doing is hanging out and talking music with other artists.

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

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#81. I'll play anyone in Uno and crush them.

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

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#83. When I know too much I get bored too fast.

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#84. You can't pee like a puppy if you wanna run with the big dogs.

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#85. Growing up in the '70s, it was only a few years before that when men started to grow their hair long. And in the '70s, people were pushing the envelope a little farther, with men having even more style and piercing both their ears and wearing makeup.

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#86. 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.

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#87. I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.'

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

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#89. If you're getting different prescriptions from different doctors, there has to be some sort of check and balance in there somewhere.

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#90. 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.

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#91. Beauty, to me, is kind, generous, and people that are humble.

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#92. There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.

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#93. We did something this year that was not based on animosity.

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#94. Anybody I'm in a band with can do what they do better than me. I'm a huge believer that I can play bass or whatever I bring to the table - producing, songwriting, orchestrating - and I can look at the other guys and say, "He's got that, he's got this, and I have this." It's a team thing.

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#95. 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.

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#96. I'm always willing to talk to somebody if they have something to say that is interesting.

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

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#98. 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.

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#99. 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.

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#100. 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.

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