Bassist NIKKI SIXX (MÖTLEY CRÜE, SIXX: A.M.) is featured in a new interview with PowerlineMag.com. An excerpt is available below:

Q: How would you describe today’s Mötley Crüe?

Nikki Sixx: "I think you’ll get a different answer from everybody in the band, that’s what I love about our band; it’s like four different personalities. But in my opinion, I feel Mötley Crüe is built to insult you. We’re here to assault you. I’m not interested in snuggling and a kiss. I just want to get right to fuckin’. And it’s, like, Sixx:AM is seductive, sexually charged, beautiful evening out under the moon that ends up making love. Fortunately in a grave yard.

Mötley Crüe, it’s just like fucking a nasty stripper that’s probably gonna give you a disease. And I’m proud of that. I don’t want us to be tame; I don’t ever want us to be rightable. The things that we do and say. And our lyrics, it amazes me to this day that they will play ‘Shout at the Devil’ on radio. It says ‘I’ll be the love in your eyes; I’ll be the blood between your thighs.’ I’m like, ‘Are you sure you’re listening to the lyrics?’ We’re not BON JOVI. It’s a miracle; the whole thing’s a miracle."

Q: What keeps you creatively stimulated after all these years?

Nikki Sixx: "Well I have plateaus. You know, I push and push and push myself, and I a lot of times watch other people in shock and awe, and they take on the energy of Mötley Crüe or my radio show or clothing and they go ‘Oh, we’re all about that.’

When I work with pyrotechnic companies, they don’t ever come to me anymore and go ‘Oh this is our pyro.’ They come to me and go ‘We designed a new head that shoots fire 30 feet and it will end with an explosion that’s never been used before.’ Any time I’m involved in anything, everyone is always trying to find something new and exciting because we sort of pull that out of people."

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Pictured below is an enormous billboard, situated high above Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, advertising Mötley Crüe's upcoming Las Vegas shows.

Confirmed Motley Crue Las Vegas dates are as follows:

February:

3rd, 4th, 5th

8th, 10th, 11th,12th

14th, 15th, 17th, 18th, 19th