Quotes by Nikki Sixx

About Nikki Sixx:

Nikki Sixx is an American musician, songwriter, radio host, and photographer, best known as the co-founder, bassist, and primary songwriter of the band Mötley Crüe. Prior to forming Mötley Crüe, Sixx was a member of Sister before going on to form London with his Sister band mate Lizzie Grey. In 2000 he formed side project group 58 with Dave Darling, Steve Gibb and Bucket Baker issuing one album, titled Diet for a New America, the same year while in 2002 he formed the hard rock supergroup Brides of Destruction with L.A. Guns guitarist Tracii Guns. Formed in 2006, initially to record an audio accompaniment to Sixx's autobiography The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star, his side band Sixx:A.M. features songwriter and producer and vocalist James Michael and guitarist DJ Ashba.
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Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.

Nikki Sixx

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

Nikki Sixx

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

Nikki Sixx

The industry is a menace to artists.

Nikki Sixx

I don't really care what people do.

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

Nikki Sixx

I can't stand people who try too hard.

Nikki Sixx

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.'

Nikki Sixx

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

Nikki Sixx

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

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

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

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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.

Nikki Sixx

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

Nikki Sixx

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.'

Nikki Sixx

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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Let's just say I have expensive taste.

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Author Bio

  • NameNikki Sixx
  • Descriptionmusician/Bassist, songwriter, Clothes designer, author, Photographer, President of Eleven Seven Music
  • BornDecember 10, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBassist; Photographer; Musician