Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx: ‘My younger self would be proud I don’t sound like Coldplay’

Bassist discusses what his younger self might make of the man he is today

Motley Crue‘s Nikki Sixx has said his younger self would be “extremely proud” he doesn’t sound like Coldplay.

The bassist made the remark in an interview with The Telegraph in which he was asked to discuss what his younger self would make of him today.

“I didn’t set out to be a rock star, but I was always into poems and words, starting with nursery rhymes when I was very young,” Sixx recalled during the interview. “Then I found a guitar and started to align the words and melodies to notes and, suddenly, the dots connected. I fell in love with Queen, Bowie and Slade, and I had the right look for it all, too – weird. I was this very artsy, punky kid.”

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After explaining that his three children are now his “biggest inspirations”, the 57-year-old rock star added: “The hardest thing about being a musician is that I have to be away from them, but I think my younger self would be proud that I became someone who he would have liked to have as a father. And, of course, he’d be extremely proud that I didn’t turn out sounding like Coldplay.”

Sixx’s band Sixx:AM band will release their fourth album ‘Prayers for the Damned, Vol. 2’ on April 29. Motley Crue played their last ever show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on December 31 last year (2015). A DVD of their final gig is due for release later this year.

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