Quotes from Nikki Sixx

Life is a series of hits and misses and tests that never end, but the reward is when you win Heaven just because you gave it your best try.

I guess you had to lose So the rest of us could win Your only fame and fortune has left you And he's holding this paper and pen.

BABY KILLS She carries Mother's Bible Mixes Valium with her beliefs

I guess we all get to live out our destiny, even those of us who have to choose the worst one imaginable. So why did I take this strange, dark trip? Well, I have a little 1-2-3 theory on this.

Creativity in its purest form is when you're willing to stand erect, eyes slammed shut, and let yourself fall

Did you get your presents from me? I asked. Nikki. Doc grimaced. You're sick. I answered the door, and there were two girls in Nazi outfits and a nun. What's wrong with you? Fuck, Doc. I was just having fun. How about you, Mr. Udo? Did you enjoy your gifts? My wife is like my air, he said. Huh? Without her, I cannot live, She is my air. I stood there feeling like a giant prick. I had tried to contaminate his air.

Life is full of so many false starts and abrupt finishes and unexpected detours. Just when you think you have it all figured out, something new comes along and rips the rug out from under you.

only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality…

Meanwhile, my experience has shown me that beneath the darkest of visages usually gleams the softest of hearts.

There is something about the fans in the South . . . they're insane. They're wilder and louder than the East and the West.

He and Nona made me. They gave me a soft heart. They are the good that's in me. When I lose my compassion and anger rears its ugly head, I think about my life

If something is worth doing - it's worth overdoing.

Your ego is not your amigo.

Some days when you get out of your own way, and just put one foot in front of the other, amazing things happen. Like in the past, in my life, and the future in yours.

with them and it brings me back to earth.

You know what sums their relationship up? The time that Tommy was running naked down the hallways of a hotel in Ohio and the police arrived, went to the room next door and arrested Mick for it.

I've never known which is funnier—Aerosmith writing "Dude Looks Like a Lady" about Vince, or Dire Straits writing "Money for Nothing (and Chicks for Free)" about Mötley. SEPTERMBER

The Los Angeles earthquake of October 1, 1987, measured 5.9 on the Richter scale. It killed eight people, injured scores more, and left 2,200 people homeless and more than 10,000 buildings badly damaged. However, Nikki Sixx was by far the most infamous Los Angeleno to react to the quake by running out of his house butt-haked and waving a crack pipe.

I'm still the first person to say "F**k you" but I'm faster to say "I love you.

I think - I honestly think that my story is not 100 percent that unique. I think that I'm - just the whole rock star part kind of throws an interesting twist on it.

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.

Los Angeles has been my home since the days even before Motley Crue, so I am beyond excited that 'The Side Show' has found a home on 98.7 FM. This is the station I listen to - my friends listen to it, my family listens to it. It's the station I wanted to be on, and I'm psyched to get started.

I remember, when I was a kid, listening to the radio and hearing 'Big Bad John' by Jimmy Dean - and it just blew me away. I used to sit there and call the radio stations and request that song. And then the Beatles were obviously out already, but I really didn't know about the Beatles.