Nikki Sixx Quotes

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

I now know that inspirations must come from everywhere.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street, as long as I have books to read and windows to look out of, I'm not going to use them up.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

Inspiration comes from the world around me. I'm an inveterate eavesdropper.

I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.

At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.

The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

Imagination - that's the future for us.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.