Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue

Ok, So First Post ever about music! I'm kind of excited about this one! I've been reading this book called The Heroin Diaries, Its a story about Nikki Sixx and his problems and experiences with drugs. Nikki Sixx is a very well known artist, He has appeared in a few bands Motley Crue, and Sixx a.m. were his most famous bands (my personal favorite is Sixx A.M.). Nikki Sixx grew up with a rough childhood, his father left him and his mother when he was young, and his mother (though he says she tried to love him) sent him away to his grandmother anytime that she found a new man due to the fact that he was "in the way". Nikki listened to rock music as he was growing up and eventually started playing it, he can play bass, piano, keyboard, guitar and he sings. as he started playing music for Motley Crue he started making money which made it possible for him to buy such expensive drugs (like Heroin). Many people seem to believe that the reason that he became an addict is because of the fact that he was in the band, but as Nikki describes it, he was destined for it. He explains in the fascinating book that he was born an addict, that weather or not he was in the band he would have found another way to get the drugs. The money sure enough helped Nikki, however i feel that because as a kid growing up was hard for him he just needed to get away form everything just for awhile. Drugs were his way of doing this.





Nikki explains in his book that he is now a completely different person. He has had overdoses and has survived he has been in great darkness and now sees light, his story is heart breaking and amazing at the same time. To be able to do as he did and come out strong the way he is now is something that i think we should all admire and respect. Nikki before being clean was a F*** everyone kind of guy, he did as he pleased when he pleased. He is now very different but in some ways same, he is still in love with music, however now music is his way of getting high (without actually being high). Nikki is different now in that he published his story because of the fact that he felt like even if only one person reads it and chooses not to go down the path he did than he is doing a great thing. He set up a charity so that when people buy his book it goes to a teenage runaway home. He has transformed into an amazing man and is still able to create the same amazing music.

He explains that when he was high and occasionally when he was sober he wrote his thoughts, he wrote about his crazy story and in the book you can actually tell when he is tripping and when he is not. You can read his thought process about everything that is or has gone on in his life. He put his thoughts together and published them as a book to tell his story and to try to get people to live his nightmare with him and scare them off drugs.