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.

One time we played a concert in Antwerp, Belgium. At least I thought it was Antwerp, Belgium. Turns out it was a Stop 'n Shop in Wisconsin somewhere, but it was fun man.

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

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

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.

Axl and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out.

Originally, I wanted to call the band 'Guns 'n Robots.' I still believe that if we had just called ourselves 'Guns 'n Robots' we'd still be together.