Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.

You're sitting with some guys, and you're playing and you go, "Ooh, yeah!" That feeling is worth more than anything. There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've been to a special place.

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you? Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.

I was number 1 on the who's likely to die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.

Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.