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.

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

That's a wonderful side effect of leather pants: when you pee yourself in them, they're more forgiving than jeans.

I love playing music as much as if not more so than I did when I was 19; that compared to most of my peers is pretty surprising. I wake up every day and get really excited about doing stuff that I have been doing for the last 30 years. I just love it.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

That's always stuck with me, with music. I've never really gotten jaded about it. I've always loved music for the sake of doing it, and the longer I do it, the more I like it. Hopefully, I'll be able to have that same point of view in this business, or at least with doing this.

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.