Bassist Nikki Sixx said in a new interview with Chicago’s Rock 95.5 radio station that Motley Crue made the right decision when they hired guitarist John 5, replacing former guitarist, Mick Mars:

“John’s been around with me for a while. I had him write a song with me and Desmond Child for Meat Loaf called ‘The Monster Is Loose’. And I put him on a Sixx A.M. song he wrote with me called ‘Lies Of The Beautiful People’, which was a big song for that band.

”And I wrote a lot of ‘The Dirt’ (soundtrack) songs with him. And he actually played guitar on those songs; the majority of those guitars are John. That was just because of the inability to get the songs recorded with Mick.

“John was kind of like easy prey for us. It was perfect. It was, like, well, he’s a friend and he knows the band and he loves the band. And I talked to the band about it, ’cause we were put in a horrible situation. I mean, you’ve gotta imagine how much of my life is dedicated, and Tommy (Lee) and Vince’s life, when we were basically told that our guitar player’s leaving the band.

”And we had to really think hard about, we were, like, ‘Okay, do we let (concert promoter) Live Nation down? Do we pull off the tour and kind of screw Def Leppard over? But what about our families and our fans?’ So, we had to make a really hard decision. And I feel like we made the right decision.”