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Nikki Sixx
American
Musician
About the author
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,
American
Musician
#Right
#Now
#Forget
#Jokes
Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
#Artists
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.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
#Time
#People
#End
#Space
Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
#Want
#People
#Change
I don't want to jump through hoops for people.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
#Want
#People
I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
#Being
#Mom
#Dad
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.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
#Life
#Kids
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.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
#People
It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
#Right
#Now
#Play
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.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
#Years
#Old
#Roses
#Sabbath
What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
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!
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
#Authority
#Trying
#Resentment
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.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
#Hunger
#Cats
We each have our own tour bus. We've never done that before.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
We did something this year that was not based on animosity.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
#History
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.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
#Passion
#Music
#Addiction
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.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
#Will
#Saying
#Play
#Music
The industry is a menace to artists.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
#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.
Nikki Sixx,
American
Musician
#People