MÖTLEY CRÜE Bassist Nikki Sixx - "GENE SIMMONS Knows I Wouldn't Return His Call"
November 2, 2007, 17 years ago
MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx spoke to Chartattack.com recently about a number of topics including his much praised new book, The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star, a memoir of addiction that reprints his journal entries - along with his present-day observations - from 1986 through 1987.
"I'm interested in sharing my very private experience in a year of my life, showing that I was able to answer my own questions from inside my diaries — questions that were painful to me — and being able to find myself through recovery," says Sixx. "And I guess what I see is that I've recovered something I lost, which was to be an artist, always."I think I'll be 70 years old and doing paintings and photography and music. I'm not really so interested in being in a rock band for the rest of my life. I'm interested in anything that could enable me to be an artist. So if that means being in a rock band, that's pretty cool. But if it means doing photography in a third world country where nobody knows who I am… I mean, some of my best times have been in Cambodia and India, wearing a long-sleeved shirt and a baseball hat with all my long hair tucked up under it and just taking these moving, affecting pictures. I'm like a pig in friggin' mud. Being in front of the camera is cool, but being behind the camera is even better. So with the Heroin Diaries' pictures and music together, this whole thing's kind of like an art project."Or a movie, perhaps? Sixx grins mischievously and says, "The phone's already started to ring."
Have any of those callers been Gene Simmons, the Kiss bassist and reality television star who's previously expressed interest in bringing The Dirt to the big screen?
"Gene Simmons has not called yet," answers Sixx with a snicker, "probably because he knows I wouldn't return his call."Read more here.
