Nikki Sixx Quotes

I do always look back and feel faintly embarrassed by anything I've done in the past. I think that's not a terrible thing, because if you don't do that, how are you growing and moving forward?

I learned from my past.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

I've been disrespectful over the years in my career because I was living a young, turnt up life. So I've said a lot of crazy things about a lot of stuff and looking back, I wouldn't take anything back, but looking forward, I wouldn't do it again.

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

If I had one regret in life... it's that I was not more humble at an earlier age.

I've done a lot of stupid things, but in most cases I can't complain about the outcomes.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.

Where I Was Wrong

I know it was raw in some places, and I was a jerk in some places, but that's the way I was, and I was stupid.

I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'

It always surprises me when people say, 'I don't regret one thing about my life. I wouldn't change anything because it's all led me to where I am today.' I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain.

If I would have had the same opportunities when I was 22, there's a good chance I would have squandered them. I know my work wouldn't have been any good.