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 bandmate Lizzie Grey. These Nikki Sixx quotes will motivate you.
Best Nikki Sixx Quotes
- “When You’ve lost it all….thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “If you don’t deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it’s gonna hurt.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you.They, too, are on a path, and just like you they are learning to walk before they can fly. Imagine of everybody you hurt in life turned their backs on you? You would be playing a hell of a lot of solitaire.
Love them no matter what.” ~ Nikki Sixx - “The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don’t wanna hear.” ~ Nikki Sixx
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“Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love. I have been inspired by heartbreak. I try to take everything that comes at me in life. There have been times in my life that I didn’t handle things… right. But even though you stumble, you still kind of get through it.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “Rock and Roll’s got to be like Jack Daniels. You’ve got to feel it burn.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “Addiction – When you can give up something any time, as long as it’s next Tuesday.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “Just let it happen and, I promise you, all that is magic will appear.” ~ Nikki Sixx
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“Live in the moment. Moments make history.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “In life, when the baggage gets too heavy, you have to put it down.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you’re lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “There is nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home. When you’ve lost it all, that’s when you finally realize that life is beautiful.” ~ Nikki Sixx Quotes
- “Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story… But together is raw honesty.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “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
- “After I binged last night -or was it tonight – I was convinced yet again that there were people coming to get me. It was more than just shadows and voices, more than just fantasies….it was real, and I was scared to my core.My bones were shaking…m heart was pounding…I thought I was going to explode. I’m glad I have you to talk to, to write this down. I tried to keep it all together, but then I gave in to the manes and became one with my insanity.” ~ Nikki Sixx
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“Alcohol, acid, cocaine… they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “I just think if I can go from being a homeless kid with a dream of being in the biggest band in the world and making that happen, I can do a lot of other cool stuff, too.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should see a shrink. Then she started crying and I started laughing.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “I am not a preacher. I don’t want to stand on a soapbox and tell people, “Don’t drink. Don’t use drugs.” With my kids, I say “Don’t drink. Don’t do drugs.” But when they turn 21, they can drink. I hope they never use drugs, but people make their own decisions. When they’re old enough, they are going to have the chance to make their own decisions. I just hope I have given them enough love and support, and the ability to come and talk to me if they need to.” ~ Nikki Sixx
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“I can’t make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “In the end, the whole Internet thing kills me, because you can use it as a positive thing or you can read into all the negativity. And I think youve gotta put out positive energy, put out cool viral stuff, and then just stay out of peoples opinions.” ~ Nikki Sixx Quotes
- “Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “Sometimes I think I should just buy a blow-up party doll. Same level of intelligence, plastic, and full of air. The problem is, I’d probably fall in love.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “You want to love unconditionally everything you do, or don’t do it.” ~ Nikki Sixx
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“Life is like a long ride to nowhere in particular.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “In the end, the whole Internet thing kills me, because you can use it as a positive thing or you can read into all the negativity. And I think youve gotta put out positive energy, put out cool viral stuff, and then just stay out of peoples opinions.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “When you’ve tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “When you can’t climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing for the next journey. If we acknowledge death as the beginning, then how can we fear it?” ~ Nikki Sixx
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“Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “I was so happy every morning when I woke up that I was pissing smiley faces.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “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!” ~ Nikki Sixx Quotes
- “Sometimes [people] say the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. In my case, I am pretty fortunate. [ My kids]’re pretty balanced, cool kids, going through pretty much the same thing all the other kids go through. There’s nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do. I don’t think they know a lot about what I do, other than that I am in this crazy band, Mötley Crüe.” ~ Nikki Sixx
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“I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “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.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “When I know too much I get bored too fast.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “I don’t fear death; I welcome it with open arms and a smirk. But until that wondrous day, I will continue to savor and celebrate all those who have graduated before me.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “You might as well learn about sex from Motley Crue than your parents because it’s a lot more interesting.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.” ~ Nikki Sixx
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“Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you’re feeling less than.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “We get paid in flesh. Our audiences are sluts and whores, each and everyone.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “Life can be cruel. It´s been my struggle, my personal battle, my obsession to make people see that different isn´t always bad.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “At birth, we are very much like a new hard drive – no viruses, no bad information, no crap that’s been downloaded into it yet. It’s what we feed into that hard drive that starts the corruption of the files.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “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.” ~ Nikki Sixx
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“I don’t want to jump through hoops for people.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play very aggressively. I always have a distortion pedal in line, and I play less melodies and do more stuff against the guitars that create melodies.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There’s nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve.” ~ Nikki Sixx
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“Every day, I wake up, and the first thing I think of is my kids.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “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
- “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!” ~ Nikki Sixx Quotes
- “UNUSED LYRIC I’ve never been to Eden But it’s nice I hear tell When I die I’ll go to heaven ’Cause I’ve done my time in hell” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “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.” ~ Nikki Sixx
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“Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “I am the outcast come home to roost and the eggs of tomorrow are incubating in my fame. You hate me, you love me, you made me, and now I am in you. I am like that disease brewing in your loins and I think you like it.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions.” ~ 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.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “What’s the best angle to cut someone’s throat? Well, usually from behind. That’s usually how it works.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “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
- “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.” ~ Nikki Sixx
