"When You've lost it all....thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful."
— Nikki Sixx

"Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it."
— Nikki Sixx (The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star)

"I was so happy every morning when I woke up that I was pissing smiley faces."
— Nikki Sixx (The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star)

"What's worse? Being strung out or being fat?"
— Nikki Sixx (The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star)

"There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control."
— Nikki Sixx (The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star)

"A Short Alternative Medical Dictionary
Definitions courtesy of Dr Lemuel Pillmeister (also known as Lemmy)

Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.
Cocaine - Peruvian Marching Powder. A stimulant that has the extraordinary effect that the more you do, the more you laugh out of context.
Depression - When everything you laugh at is miserable and you can't seem to stop.
Heroin - A drug that helps you to escape reality, while making it much harder to cope when you are recaptured.
Psychosis - When everybody turns into tiny dolls and they have needles in their mouths and they hate you and you don't care because you have THE KNIFE! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
— Nikki Sixx (The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star)

"Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!"
— Nikki Sixx (The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star)

"When you die, every single muscle in your body hurts. Your body has closed down because it thinks it's done, and when it gets rebooted, every inch of you hurts. Plus I'd had the shit beaten out of me with a baseball bat."
— Nikki Sixx (The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star)

"It would be too much for me to deal with to be sitting up there next to God, Bon Scott, Sid Vicious, and Jimi Hendrix, and hear somebody read my obituary from below:

NIKKI SIXX DIED TODAY...FUCKING GOLFING"
— Nikki Sixx (The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star)

"Sometimes I think I should just buy a blow-up party doll. Same level of intelligence, plastic, and full of air.

The problem is, I'd probably fall in love."
— Nikki Sixx (The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star)

"I must have bitten Angus Young too, because his brother Malcolm walked up to me in a rage. I was wearing platform boots, and Malcolm's face was eye level with my belly button. "You fucking bastard," he roared at my navel. "You can bite my brother, fine! But if you fucking bite me, I'll bite your fucking nose off, you dog-faced faggot."
I think I said something like "you and what stepladder," because before I knew it, he was attacking me, climbing up my leg and clawing at my face like a crazed cat."
— Nikki Sixx

"There's nothin like a trail of ßlooÐ to finÐ your way ßack home"
— Nikki Sixx (The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star)

"My dick didn't seem to be aware that she was there. She kept asking me what was wrong, and I was so out of it that I thought she meant what was wrong with the world, so I started talking about global poverty and shit. I'm not surprised she left. I suspect she won't be coming back."
— Nikki Sixx (The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star)

"You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true, some lies and I still don't know which is which. Children are born innocent. At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive, or in my case "head drive" that starts the corruption of the files."
— Nikki Sixx (The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star)

"Ian Gittings: The Los Angeles earthquake of October 1,1987 measured 5.9 on the Richter scale. It killed eight people, injured scores more, and left 2,200 people homeless and more than 10,000 buildings badly damaged.

However, Nikki Sixx was by far the most infamous Los Angeleno to react to the quake by running out of his house butt-naked and waving a crack pipe."
— Nikki Sixx (The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star)