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For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't have a father, it looked good to me. If I had read Johnny Thunders' book The Heroin Diaries, I don't think I would have done heroin.

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Nikki Sixx
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 11
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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.
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When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.
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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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The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.
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What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.
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I love a little distortion across the bass I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.
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I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.
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We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.
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Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.
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A lot can happen [because of the dysfunctional family]. People don't look at that. They think, Oh, my kids are going to be fine. My kids are resilient. But at a certain point, the damage starts. They start to feel pain - and when they feel bad, they start to take painkillers. We want to kill the pain.
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Its just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means for now.
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Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.
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I love Starbucks. Maybe thats a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. Its what gets me out of bed in the morning.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.
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