No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide some warning signs, they can do little to prepare you for the feeling of rootlessness that follows when fate flips your world upside down. Anger, confusion, sadness, and frustration are shaken up together inside you like a snow globe. It takes years for the emotional dust to settle as you do your best to see through the storm.

I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.

My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.

I once asked Axl why he left the 'E' off his name. He started crying and said he thought he'd spelled it right.

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.

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

I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.