Nikki Sixx
I had to find the courage to turn my life around.Collection: Courage
Traveling around the country, meeting fans and hearing their stories in person and on my radio show has reenergized my commitment to creating honest and inspirational content that not only serves my own creative purposes but can help and touch others as well.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: War
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.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Dating
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.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Sad
Beauty, to me, is kind, generous, and people that are humble.Collection: Beauty
I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.Collection: Mom
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.Collection: Funny
If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.Collection: Cool
I'm very interested in architecture.Collection: Architecture
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.Collection: Nature
Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.Collection: Great
If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.
You can't pee like a puppy if you wanna run with the big dogs.
I've always had an eye for the oddities in life.
People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.
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.
There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.
I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods.
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.
Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.
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.
Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.
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.
I'm always willing to talk to somebody if they have something to say that is interesting.
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.
It's just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means 'for now.'
It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts.
I have a wonderful assistant. I tell her I need four amputees and a midget, and she finds them.
I love women. My life revolves around them.
Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.
I know when I wear a Led Zeppelin shirt, I am happy to put that Led Zeppelin shirt on. It's not, 'Well, they kind of suck.'
Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.
I listen to NPR a lot. I love that.
I don't want to jump through hoops for people.
You can get through anything if you want it bad enough.
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.
Rock n' roll is dirty, and it's bad, and it's either clever or it's not clever.
What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.
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.
We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.
We each have our own tour bus. We've never done that before.
We did something this year that was not based on animosity.
There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.
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.
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.
The industry is a menace to artists.
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.