Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do.

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

I dont believe in having regrets.

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.

As soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.

GET YOURSELF TOGETHER DRINK TILL YOU DROP FORGET ABOUT TOMORROW AND HAVE ANOTHER SHOT