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Interview by Nancy B. Sayle
With a career spanning more than 20 years, Mötley Crüe and their bassist Nikki Sixx are still at the top of the music scene. The band has sold more than 40 million albums and has filled more arenas than one could count.
In 2001, the band released a tell-all memoir, appropriately titled The Dirt. Hollywood is producing a movie version of the book, which details the band's sex and drug-fueled career. For Sixx, the tome served to purge his emotional inner demons. In the book, Nikki reveals that he not only battled drug addiction, but he also actuallt died and came back to life, just to do more drugs and overdose again.

Today, the rock 'n' roll bad boy is lysober and married to former Baywatch babe Donna D'Errico. Together, the duo is one hell of a power couple. While Mötley Crüe is on hiatus, Nikki has spent time with his family and on several projects: a new band, a new book and a new clothing line. Meanwhile, D'Errico has her acting career and has just opened a spa.
Donna and Nikki are living proof that a small-town girl and a misfit boy can become successful celebrities/entrepreneurs. This dynamic duo is definitely one to watch out for.
I talked to the pair at their HUSTLER photo-shoot, where they spoke candidly about their lives, business projects and sex techniques.

HUSTLER: You've had a long-term relationship with Larry Flynt and HUSTLER magazine.
SIXX: I met Larry in '82, I think. We'd go up to his house and partake in all the festivities. We were doing all kinds of stuff together. Larry's been amazingly supportive of my band. It was one of the reasons why, during the Dr. Feelgood tour, I wore a HUSTLER T-shirt every night. We were doing the "Afraid" video and decided to call up Larry to see if he wanted to be in it. He put us on the cover of HUSTLER. I think we were the first and only rock band to be on the cover ever. Now I get to grace the cover again. On in Mötley Crüe World does this happen.

HUSTLER: Is Mötley going to tour again?
SIXX: Well I'd like them to. This band is really magical. We agreed to take a year off and recharge the batteries. Tommy [Lee, drummer] had left the band. His relationship with [singer] Vince [Neil] had deteriorated to a point where he just didn't want be around him; so I said "Let's pull the plug till Tommy gets being a solo artist out of his system." Now I get to watch my kids grow up, to be with my wife and do some things that I haven't gotten to do in a long time- forever actually. Like doing the movie version of the book. The book was a bestseller. Paramount Pictures and MTV Films have signed on.

HUSTLER: Is it weird to have your whole life up on screen?
SIXX: Yes, it is! It freaks me out, but right now, we are more concerned with the script. We hired Rich Wilkes, who wrote XXX; so he's finishing the script. The band needs to see it. No one in the band has really been in the loop on that.

HUSTLER: What else are you currently working on?
SIXX: The thing that has me most excited is my new clothing line. I had a clothing line before called Outlaw, and it just didn't fly. I invested hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it just lost money. It was like a bleeding, dying pig. My partners wouldn't listen to me, and it became very frustrating. But in all fairness, I did not understand the clothing business as I do now. When we started the new clothing line, N. Sixx, I met Edward Dada from Dragonfly Clothing. We based the clothing on tattooes. Not that that's completely original; tattoo shops and Harley have done it, but we really wanted to take a lifestyle and put it on clothing. As I say, "Cover the asses of the masses."

HUSTLER: How did your new band, Brides of Destruction, come to life?
SIXX: I got an e-mail from [L.A. Guns guitarist] Tracii Guns; it just said, "I wanna rock!" He basically forced me to get in the band with him. Then he found the singer, London, who is a hairdresser. I wasn't sold, but Tracii's smart; he had the guy learn "Set me Free" by the Sweet and got me to come over, and I see this guy who's larger than life. He looks like a rock star, then he starts to sing. I think, I've never had this before. So we got together with [former Crüe singer/guitarist] John Corabi, playing rhythm, and a drummer named Scot Coogan, who, as far as I'm concerned, is one of the best drummers: Tommy Lee, Taylor Hawkins, and then there is Scot Coogan. I felt like I was home again. As we progressed, it got punkier. We started writing songs like "I Don't Care" and " Shut the Fuck Up," and John didn't get it; so he ended up leaving to pursue other music. Anyhow, that is the birth of Brides of Destruction. A fan gave us the name. We are a four-piece, living, breathing machine.

HUSTLER: It sounds like everything's settling into place.
SIXX: Yeah, but I seem to find my own drama still. The other day I turned on Howard Stern, and Vince is bagging on me about not touring. And I thought, Fuck, we agreed not to tour. We decided, after the movie, let's go do a tour. Besides, the communication between Tommy and Vince needs to be open. I'd like to put tickets on sale in 2004 and go out in 2005; so we're only a year away.

HUSTLER: I hear Tommy's doing a book, and you're doing a book.
SIXX: Yes, Tommy is doing a book. I'm doing a book with [The Dirt co-author] Neil Strauss again. It's called The Heroin Diaries. It's my diaries from 1986 to 1987.

HUSTLER: It's amazing that you could keep a journal during that time.
SIXX: It's very intriguing to read. It's not pro-drugs, and it's not antidrugs; it's just the truth. If Keith Richards had put this book in my hands, I would never have put a needle in my arm.

HUSTLER: At what age did you start shooting up?
SIXX: About 20, 21.

HUSTLER: In your book, The Dirt, you and Tommy were shooting up alcohol. Tommy said, "What the fuck? We can drink it, but we shot it up instead."
SIXX: Conceptually, I thought, Why drink it when we can shoot it? It's quicker and faster to the bloodstream. I used to sit there and think, Well, it's about getting high; it's about blowing your mind. Let me find the closest thing to my mind; so I used to shoot up in my neck.

HUSTLER: I've actualy heard of people shooting up in their eye lid. That's pretty hard-core.
SIXX: That's very hard-core. Too hard-core for me, and I thought shooting up in my dick was bad. There you have a main artery and boom!

HUSTLER: Speaking of exploding dicks, Donna, did you ever think that you would become a famous sex symbol.
D'ERRICO: I was a nerd in high school. The family didn't have much money. We went to private school; so it was all they could do to afford our school. We drove in the big blue bomb to school while all the other kids pulled up in BMWs. I was always very, very shy. I'd walk down the hall with my head lowered. I think that's why I decided to become an actress. Many actors and actresses are self-conscious. With acting, you can hide behind the character.

HUSTLER: Did you act in school?
D'ERRICO: I didn't do acting in high school, I started in grade school. I played the Virgin Mary.

HUSTLER: What is new in the world of Donna? I understand you've become quite the entrepreneur.
D'ERRICO: I have a new spa, called ZenSpa, located in Calabasas, California. The spa is 5,000 feet, and I designed it myself. It is a mix of Tibetan monastery and American rustic. It's really very soothing. The spa is for both men and women, and we have very unique techniques. We have what we call the classical-rock massage. Rock, meaning music. JVC donated wireless headphones. There are three albums you can choose from: Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Moody Blues or Vivaldi's Four Seasons. It is the length of the whole album, and the massage therapists time the massages to the music. I wanted something in homage to my husband. When you think of massage, you don't normally think of rock 'n' roll, but it works.

HUSTLER: What compelled you to open a spa?
D'ERRICO: I wanted a place where people could go and escape. These times are stressful, with everyone going a million miles an hour. I started reading Zen philosophy and fell in love with it. Also, there were no great spas where I live. I had to keep driving to Beverly Hills. They weren't very personal, and I wanted a place where people felt at home.

HUSTLER: Does this mean you'll stop acting, or will you be able to handle both?
D'ERRICO: For a while, I was on a long hiatus, always working on the spa, but I have done some acting parts along the way. I did a cameo in Austin Powers: Goldmember. It was funny; I was selling melons. I had great lines: "Melons. Big, juicy melons." And then I didKiss the Bride with Alyssa Milano, Talia Shire and Jonathan Schaech. And recently I just finished a movie with Mark Hamill called Comic Book: The Movie. It's 100% improv; there are no lines. We actually made it up as we went. We had the basic premise, but that was it.

HUSTLER: Donna, please give out male readers advice on what to do in the bedroom.
D'ERRICO: Basically, this is how I feel: Don't try to reenact a porn movie you saw and start smackin' their asses, thinking you are all studly. It's not a turn-on. What you should do is make sure you know what you're doing while performing cunnilingus. There is nothing worse than a speedy tongue guy. Make sure you're on the right spot and ask questions. Just don't think you're the cunnilingus god while you're down there, and she's up there in hell. At that point, the woman thinks, Just come up here and fuck me.

HUSTLER: That's a problem? Uh, what I meant was, have you ever had sex with another chick? I read that you either did it one-on-one with a girl or in a threeway, but it wasn't clear which one.
D'ERRICO: That would be in a threeway with Nikki. It was when we both drank, and we were kind of fucked up. Alcohol has a lot to do with your decisions. It makes you uninhibited and crazy.

HUSTLER: Wow, a threesome, how horrible. Nikki, can you give the readers some advice on how to satisfy a woman and keep her wanting more? Donna says you're an expert at it.
SIXX: Well, I am an expert. I am an expert in listening. It's actually listening and licking. It's the Double-L, Listening and Licking Theory. It's the Nikki Sixx Double-L Theory; don't talk, just listen and lick- and leave. It's really the Triple-L!