Nikki Sixx
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.Collection: Band
When I'm onstage, I'm more in the audience in my head than I am on the stage.Collection: Stage
Personal chemistry forges the way for musical chemistry.Collection: Musical
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.Collection: Creativity
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.Collection: Photography
The more I go onstage, the more quiet I am before, because I intend to go onstage and slaughter.Collection: Quiet
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.Collection: Girl
I love Starbucks. Maybe thats a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. Its what gets me out of bed in the morning.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Kissing
Its just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means for now.Collection: Farewell
There's nothin like a trail of ßlooÐ to finÐ your way ßack homeCollection: Home
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!Collection: Daughter
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.Collection: New York
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Different
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.Collection: Pie
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.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Magic
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.Collection: Fall
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.Collection: Play
When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.Collection: Light