Quotes from Nikki Sixx

I love women. My life revolves around them.

I know I'd feel emotional if one of my favorite bands was going out.

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.'

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

I just love doing radio. I've learned to be more vulnerable through radio than even I've been through books and writing lyrics. It's a different type of experience where, if I'm writing a lyric, I can sort of hide behind it a little bit.

We all fall off the wagon. It's only one day; it's not the rest of your life. Pick yourself up and go again.

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

I'm not bothered by my appearance.

My studio, nicknamed 'Funny Farm,' is in a hidden location. It's very private. Not only do I create my photography there, but it is also where I write my books and create music.

If you're getting different prescriptions from different doctors, there has to be some sort of check and balance in there somewhere.

It's interesting. People go to an animal shelter and pick a dog that's been kicked, beaten, and has lost a leg and an eye, and they'll take that dog home and give it love and support, but they don't do that with people.

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

Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions.

I was so happy every morning when I woke up that I was pissing smiley faces.

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.

It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.

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.

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

Live in the moment. Moments make history.

When you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home.

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.

I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

For those that don't know, my sister was born with Down Syndrome, and she was institutionalized in the very early sixties. Me, being just a small boy and being shuffled around between my mother and grandparents, I never knew her.

Growing up in the '70s, it was only a few years before that when men started to grow their hair long. And in the '70s, people were pushing the envelope a little farther, with men having even more style and piercing both their ears and wearing makeup.