NIKKI SIXX Is 'Not So Really Inclined' To Record A New MÖTLEY CRÜE Album

Ultimate-Guitar.com recently conducted an interview with MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Ultimate-Guitar.com: When you overdosed in December of 1987 and were declared dead but remarkably were revived by paramedics, do you remember anything of the experience of having come close to the other side?

Nikki: I'd done a VH1 "Behind The Music" a few years ago which first brought up what has always sort of been in my head. You see, I sort of remember things like… I remember sort of seeing the event even though I was actually lying on the ground with a sheet over my head. There was a part of me that thought, "God, did I really die? Is it real or is it fake?' It was very confusing and I kind of blurted it out those feelings on "Behind The Music". Then later I was like, "God, I wish I hadn't said that," because I just didn't want people to think I was fuckin' nuts. But then when I found the diaries and read that part of it, I was fuckin' blown away. I was like, "Fuck, that was exactly what was in my head." And it was scary.

Ultimate-Guitar.com: Having come close to death, did it give you a new spiritual outlook on life?

Nikki: Not so much from that experience but in general. I think I'm a very spiritual person. I believe there is a power greater than myself and I believe that there is something else out there. It would be pretty narcissistic to think it's all about us? Even though we have this great terminology of "rock god," I mean it's a bit of a farce though isn't it?

Ultimate-Guitar.com: That whole period in the 80s with the success of MÖTLEY CRÜE and all your underlining drug addictions, looking back now, do you think that if you hadn't gone through all that debauchery and whatnot we may not have the songs you wrote that came out from all of that?

Nikki: You know, one will never know. I look at an album like "Dr. Feelgood" and I see it as one of our best albums and that was done at a time when the band all had their act together. And then I look at the other albums where we were really smashed and out of it and they were what they were. No one will ever know. In my case, drugs and alcohol don't make me more creative, they make me less creative. So I can only imagine. I mean I look at the soundtrack for "The Heroin Diaries" and the creativity that is happening on that record where it was all done with clear heads, it tells me right there that I'm probably a better artist when my I'm clearer.

Ultimate-Guitar.com: What are your views on the whole music downloading issue?

Nikki: I think anything we can do to spread music around is good. I like the way that you can fire away, you know, infect a whole community, so to speak. So I think that it's all good. I do believe that you can't control it and you shouldn't try to control it. It will spread beyond what it is where people will actually purchase all their music via it. Will it affect some things? Probably. Does it increase sales at the same time? Probably so…yes. I would agree with all of those arguments. And it's an argument that I've watched artists take both sides on but I tend to stand on the side of letting it all get out there.

Ultimate-Guitar.com: So when can we expect another MÖTLEY CRÜE album to surface?

Nikki: Well, we just got done touring for quite a few years recently. Now I'm home working on "The Heroin Diaries" project, the soundtrack and getting the message out there. As well there is the clothing line that I'm doing with Kelly Gray called Royal Underground which is really doing well. I'm just really enjoying this creative time at home and am not so really inclined to get up and go do a MÖTLEY CRÜE at this point in time. I mean, at some point, sure, but right now it's like… I've never done MÖTLEY CRÜE and my projects at the same time anyway so right now it's my time to do whatever I want to do. And I'm also working on a novel which I'd like to eventually finish too.

Read the entire interview at Ultimate-Guitar.com.