John Corabi discussed his time in Motley Crue and if it was successful in a new Bumping into That Sound interview, “Well, let me say this. It depends on how you look at life. Now, I could sit here and pull my fucking hair out because my bank account doesn’t look the same as [Motley Crue bassist] Nikki Sixx’s or [Aerosmith singer] Steven Tyler’s. If that’s how I’m judging it, then I’ve failed miserably. But the one thing that I will say, and it doesn’t make me any less hungry, but I’m hungry for different things.
“I remember having a conversation with Nikki when we were sitting back and we were listening to the Motley record that I did — the main one — and we were just all sitting there, like, ‘Fuck.’ All of us felt like that record, it was just strong. And I made a comment, like, ‘Well, fellas, whether this thing sells five copies or five million, we did a fucking great job.’ And Nikki got pissed about that comment.
“I wasn’t measuring [success] by album sales; I was measuring it by the quality of what I felt we achieved musically,” he continued. “And Nikki took offense to it. ‘That’s a lame attitude to have.’ And I go, ‘No, it’s not. I’m just saying from a musical point of view, I think we can did a pretty good job here.’ Now, again, if I sat and I looked at it from a monetary thing, do I have the success that Nikki has? No. I don’t live in a 10,000-square-foot mansion. I live in a 1,500-square-foot home that I feel is very comfortable. It’s me and my wife. I’ve been married three times, so my kids are all grown up. They don’t live here. It’s me and my wife and three dogs. I have a cool caravan. I have a couple of cool Harley-Davidsons. We have Jeeps, a truck, and I have a huge backyard for the three dogs that I have to just go out and play and run and throw a ball to them and do my thing.
“Hey, look, would I love to be able to walk up to a fucking Maserati dealership and buy one? Yeah, sure. I mean, who wouldn’t? But I’m not gonna let the money thing get me crazy.
