When that band started out, I was 18 years old. So that was my reality all the way up until I quit the band. And even then, you know, Guns N' Roses has a nasty way of sticking around.

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.

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

It seems like a lot of what was going on when I quit is still going on.

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.

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.