NIKKI SIXX: 'Creativity Was There For Me First, Drugs Came Second'

August 26, 2011

Steve Appleford of RollingStone.com recently conducted an interview with MTLEY CRE bassist Nikki Sixx.

On rediscovering an old obsession: photography:

Nikki: "Creativity was there for me first, drugs came second. When you take the drugs out, every day is about creativity, whether it's songwriting, designing clothes or photography."

"My girlfriend sometimes says I need to put the camera down when we're in bed. I have a guitar next to me, and I have a camera next to me, and I love it."

On how he has accumulated about 40,000 images on a hard drive and has begun uploading the images on his active Tumblr and Flickr sites:

Nikki: "In the moment, I'm so passionate, but then I move on quickly. I do the same thing as a songwriter I write it and I have a lyric and it really touches me, and then we record it and I'm on to the next thing."

On his upcoming rare photo session with another band, BLACK VEIL BRIDES:

Nikki: "I talked to the band and I felt passion in their eyes. I said 'I want to fuckin' push you somewhere between Joel-Peter Witkin, Diane Arbus and a horror movie,' and they were like, 'Dude, we're fuckin' so down.' It was beautiful to have someone who was so okay with anything that I can come up with."

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