MÖTLEY CRÜE Bassist Nikki Sixx - "I'm So Healthy It's Ridiculous"
October 19, 2007, 16 years ago
MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx spoke to Caitlin Hotchkiss from ChartAttack.com recently about a number of topics including he release of The Heroin Diaries (a year of his diary entries from 1987, during the height of both the Crue's popularity and Sixx's own destructive addictions). A few excerpts from the chat found here follow:
ChartAttack.com: So how's your health these days?
Sixx: "I'm so healthy it's ridiculous. I don't understand it. You know, I just recently did the mandatory thing you have to do when you reach your forties — the full tests, the blood, the physical, the whole deal. I even went so far as to get the MRIs where they scan you and they look for everything internally, to see if there's anything going on. So then the doctor called me in, and he was laughing. He was like, "What the fuck? I know your history, and you're like a 20 year old." It must have been that deal I made with the devil or something. (laughs)"
ChartAttack.com: What's your biggest vice now?
Sixx: "Work. I'm really addicted to doing stuff. I have this thing where I always want to take nothing and make it something. So I have to watch myself and take a look at my priorities every day. I have to struggle with my priorities… no, I take that back. I don't have to struggle, I have to look at them and make sure they're not in the wrong order. As long as it's me being clean, and then it's my kids, and then it's my career, and lastly it's my personal life. When I keep it like that, everything seems to work."
