Buckethead [former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist] is probably twice as good a guitar player as me and Slash combined, and can stand having fried chicken rubbed up against his face all night for a couple of hours.

I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.

I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica.

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.

To me, the most important thing was to treat people the way you want to be treated. Some people say that I'm a mean person. Well, you know what? The person that's saying that is probably a dipshit and I put them in their place! I have a knack for doing that.

I could do Rust In Peace again, but I don't want to. I could have followed that formula but, God, why? I would have to have done so much heroin and cocaine - and I wasn't going to. Not if I'm paying for it!