Nikki Sixx · 413 pages
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“Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“A Short Alternative Medical Dictionary
Definitions courtesy of Dr Lemuel Pillmeister (also known as Lemmy)
Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.
Cocaine - Peruvian Marching Powder. A stimulant that has the extraordinary effect that the more you do, the more you laugh out of context.
Depression - When everything you laugh at is miserable and you can't seem to stop.
Heroin - A drug that helps you to escape reality, while making it much harder to cope when you are recaptured.
Psychosis - When everybody turns into tiny dolls and they have needles in their mouths and they hate you and you don't care because you have THE KNIFE! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true, some lies and I still don't know which is which. Children are born innocent. 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, or in my case "head drive" that starts the corruption of the files.”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“when you can’t climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home…”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“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, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“Life is like a long ride to nowhere in particular.”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing.”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“I was so happy every morning when I woke up that I was pissing smiley faces.”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“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, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“There's nothin like a trail of ßlooÐ to finÐ your way ßack home”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“when you’re sitting on a plane 40, 000 feet up in the air, looking out the window, dreaming of your future and how bright it appears to be, or maybe just watching the drops of rain being pushed into different designs from the force of air at 400 mph, well, life feels good. it feels safe, your seat belt is on and your feet are up. then the oxygen masks fall, the plane jumps, snaps and jolts. people start to scream, babies burst out crying, people start praying all in time to the overhead announcement that we’re gonna crash. right then, as your life flashes before your eyes, you hear yourself say, “god, if you get me outta this one, i’ll stop [insert lie here] forever.” right then the nose of the plane pulls up and the captain says, “wow, that was a close one, folks. we’re ok, we’ll be landing in thirty minutes and we’re all safe and sound, sorry for the scare…” that’s how getting hooked on junk is, and when the kick is over you can’t believe you ever got on that plane in the first place. the question is, will you ever fly again?”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“It would be too much for me to deal with to be sitting up there next to God, Bon Scott, Sid Vicious, and Jimi Hendrix, and hear somebody read my obituary from below:
NIKKI SIXX DIED TODAY...FUCKING GOLFING”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“When you die, every single muscle in your body hurts. Your body has closed down because it thinks it's done, and when it gets rebooted, every inch of you hurts. Plus I'd had the shit beaten out of me with a baseball bat.”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“My dick didn't seem to be aware that she was there. She kept asking me what was wrong, and I was so out of it that I thought she meant what was wrong with the world, so I started talking about global poverty and shit. I'm not surprised she left. I suspect she won't be coming back.”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“When You've lost it all....that's when you realize that Life is Beautiful.”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“People want to see the car crash instead of the race. But, when you're the one in the car that's crashing, it's not much fun. I'm enjoying the race.”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“What's worse? Being strung out or being fat?”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“Ian Gittings: 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-naked and waving a crack pipe.”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“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, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“Like Hemingway said, the only thing that could spoil a day was people.”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“A friend tells you the truth, that your breath stinks and you need a bath. An enemy tells you that you look great and you shouldn’t change a thing.”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“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, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“I wanted to help him but I guess ultimately you can only slay the dragon yourself. All that I could do was help him sharpen his sword if he needed me to.”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“They say to keep what you have, you have to give it away. I believe that. I also believe that you can be cool as fuck, not give a fuck and fucking kick ass in life, and not be fucked up. I’m still the first person to say “Fuck you” but I’m faster to say “I love you.” If life is what you make it, I’ve made mine great. It took a lot of hard work and if you need to, you can do it too.”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“The dying could be easy…it was the living that I didn’t know if I could do…”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“P.S. Hey what has 48 legs and 12 teeth? The front row in Alabama…”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“Life was full of surprises, with too many bruises and not enough Band-Aids.”
― Nikki Sixx, quote from The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
Nikki Sixx
Born place: in San Jose, California, The United States
Born date December 11, 1958
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― B.B. Reid, quote from Fear Me
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― David Arnold, quote from Mosquitoland
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