I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

There are people who have an image of me as being rude and inconsiderate. But I'm completely the opposite, because I was raised not to be. I might have been tripping over myself drunk, but I was always courteous.

When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

I was never into hanging out on the Sunset Strip. When it came to Guns N' Roses and the scene that was going on then, that was something we pretty much hated. That was what we had to scratch and claw through, and as soon as we got established enough to leave, we never went back.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.