Latest Nikki Sixx Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

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  Fall, Guitar, Pockets

• 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.

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  Magic, Sound, Details

• 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.

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  Play, Want, Stuff

• Personal chemistry forges the way for musical chemistry.

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  Musical, Way, Chemistry

• 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.

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  Creativity, Two, Giving

• What's exciting about being an artist, still, and what I'm really finding is awesome is that you can do it until you drop. I don't care how many lines I have on my face - I'll keep doing it!

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  Artist, Care, Lines

• Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

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  Perfection, Imperfection, Unattainable

• When I'm onstage, I'm more in the audience in my head than I am on the stage.

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  Stage, Audience

• When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.

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  Light, Looks, Band

• In my own life I like to be poised and have a positive outlook on life, and I'm leading by example to my children and people around me.

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  Children, Outlook On Life, People

• 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.

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  Band, Honest, Members

• 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.

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  Photography, Passion, Weekend

• I can't make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do

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  Trying, Be Good, I Can

• The more I go onstage, the more quiet I am before, because I intend to go onstage and slaughter.

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  Quiet, Slaughter

• You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise, as ironic and Zen Buddhist and satanic as it sounds!

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  Buddhist, Silence, Ironic

• I look back at things I said when I was younger - it was bulls - t. You do what you have to do to go where you have to go, but I look back and I don't believe what that guy was saying.

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  Believe, Guy, Looks

• Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.

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  Ego, Feelings, Doubt

• I don't like to write music by myself anymore. It's boring. I want the jamming, the push and pull, and the excitement that comes with it.

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  Writing, Want, Excitement

• Anybody I'm in a band with can do what they do better than me. I'm a huge believer that I can play bass or whatever I bring to the table - producing, songwriting, orchestrating - and I can look at the other guys and say, "He's got that, he's got this, and I have this." It's a team thing.

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  Team, Play, Guy

• The more confident you are, the more you can let go and believe that the people you've chosen to be in your circle are able to do what they say they're going to do and what they're really good at. It has made me a better band member, too.

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  Letting Go, Believe, Circles

• There's really only one true path to recovery that's using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality).

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  Recovery, Path, Steps

• I keep interested and I keep my eyes wide open...I try to read as much as possible...try to go to places that are off the beaten path...and I love to listen in on other peoples conversations...all the things that are floating around out there and I regurgitate it with my perspective...lyrically and musically.

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  Eye, Off The Beaten Path, Perspective

• Everybody needs some real rock in their lives...whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones...or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold...it's out there.

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  Real, Rocks, Needs

• 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!

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  Daughter, Dad, Halloween

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. November 8, 2007.

• Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That's not me. No more.

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  Creative, Soul, Darkness

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. November 8, 2007.