Nikki Sixx's Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.

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.

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

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

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

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