Oct 24, 2026 · 9 min · 11 segments
Host Lori Rosales talks to rock legends -- bassist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee -- from the band Mötley Crüe. They discuss the band's iconic journey, their influence on generations, and details…
Lori RosalesHost
Nikki SixxGuest
Tommy LeeGuest
hi guys it really is so great to have you guys on our show today thank you so much for joining us
thank you thanks for that intro i feel pretty good about myself right now yeah wow like wow we've done all that yeah you kind of just live it in the moment you forget sometimes we even forget how long we've been around
Congrats! With that being said, one of Motley Crue's earliest songs, Kickstart My Heart, passed a billion Spotify streams during the same year as your anniversary.
Nicki, what's it like having this song be so popular with a generation that wasn't even born when you guys recorded it?
Our music is ingrained in so many different and you don't set out with that kind of a goal.
You set out with like, how can we just be in a band? Like, how can we just be in a band that doesn't sound like everybody else and look like everybody else? And that's like at the core of it, what it's always been about for us.
And then to see all these other things, you know, get accumulated over the years, it's pretty mind blowing.
I don't think we... really celebrate ourselves like that because we're always focused on the creative
hi guys it really is so great to have you guys on our show today thank you so much for joining us
thank you thanks for that intro i feel pretty good about myself right now yeah wow like wow we've done all that yeah you kind of just live it in the moment you forget sometimes we even forget how long we've been around
Congrats! With that being said, one of Motley Crue's earliest songs, Kickstart My Heart, passed a billion Spotify streams during the same year as your anniversary.
Nicki, what's it like having this song be so popular with a generation that wasn't even born when you guys recorded it?
Our music is ingrained in so many different and you don't set out with that kind of a goal.
You set out with like, how can we just be in a band? Like, how can we just be in a band that doesn't sound like everybody else and look like everybody else? And that's like at the core of it, what it's always been about for us.
And then to see all these other things, you know, get accumulated over the years, it's pretty mind blowing.
I don't think we... really celebrate ourselves like that because we're always focused on the creative
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
