Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx recently had an interview with WTHR-TV Channel 13, where he spoke about his creative process and the current state of the rock scene.
Speaking with WTHR, Sixx makes an observation on the polarization of the band: "Like us or hate us, one thing about Motley Crue is we have so many people that we just really piss them off, and other people that they say we've changed their lives.. So I guess if you're gonna operate the way we operate and say it and do it the way you want to do it, not like anybody else, you're gonna probably draw both extremes of types of reactions. And that's kind of also been accidentally the magic of Motley Crue."
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Sixx continues, speaking on the band's creative process: Life changes, man. It's cool that it changes. The thing that I don't like is when I see artists that are still trying to act 25 and they're 65. I don't think that's cool for the fans. Evolution is evolution. We all age, we all change, we have different interests, and Motley Crue seems to have ridden that wave pretty good, just letting it be real."
"You evolve as a person, as a lyricist. My evolution as a lyricist, it goes from the rawest of the raw to the most heartfelt. And that's just as I grew as a man and my interests evolved. That changes the lyrics, but then that changes the idea of the song. The lyrics to 'Home Sweet Home' are way different than the lyrics to 'Shout at the Devil'... and so as we go, we just keep evolving. And you might stumble upon some different ways of writing. I guess you just keep kind of chipping away at the stone, so to speak."
per WTHR-TV
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