Nikki Sixx Quotes

#1. It would be too much for me to deal with to be sitting up there next to God, Bon Scott, Sid Vicious, and Jimi Hendrix, and hear somebody read my obituary from below:
NIKKI SIXX DIED TODAY ... FUCKING GOLFING

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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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#4. Los Angeles has been my home since the days even before Motley Crue, so I am beyond excited that 'The Side Show' has found a home on 98.7 FM. This is the station I listen to - my friends listen to it, my family listens to it. It's the station I wanted to be on, and I'm psyched to get started.

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

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

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#7. 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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#8. Life was full of surprises, with too many bruises and not enough Band-Aids.

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#9. I can't make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do

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

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

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#12. I don't really care what people do.

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

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#14. 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.

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

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

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

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#18. 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.

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#19. When the addict gets recovery, his family gets recovery, right?

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

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#21. You want to love unconditionally everything you do, or don't do it.

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#22. The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

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#23. 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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#24. Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!

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

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

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

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#28. Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

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#29. 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.

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#30. 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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#31. 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.

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#32. There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.

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#33. 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.

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#34. Personal chemistry forges the way for musical chemistry.

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

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#37. 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.

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#38. Just let it happen and, I promise you, all that is magic will appear.

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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.

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#42. 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.

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

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#45. 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.

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

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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. The more I go onstage, the more quiet I am before, because I intend to go onstage and slaughter.

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

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#51. 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.

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#52. Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.

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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. I remember Iggy and the Stooges' song 'Search and Destroy' reaching out from my speakers to me like my own personal anthem.

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

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#59. I understand quarterly billing, how the record companies run.

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

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

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#62. When you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home ...

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#63. 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.

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

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#65. The industry is a menace to artists.

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

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#67. Through recovery, I've been able to do so much good stuff.

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#68. 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.

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

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#70. 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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#71. 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.

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#72. 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.

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#73. Let's just say I have expensive taste.

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

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#75. I love Starbucks. Maybe that's a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. It's what gets me out of bed in the morning.

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#76. 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.

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#77. I love women. My life revolves around them.

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#78. My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital.

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

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

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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. 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.

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#87. I don't want to jump through hoops for people.

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#88. Hey, man, I like to look good; I wear make-up.

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#89. 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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#90. 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.

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#91. I can't stand people who try too hard.

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#92. I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

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#93. 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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#94. 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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#95. 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.

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

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

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#99. 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.

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#100. 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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