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

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

But if I was still trying to be in Guns N' Roses while I wasn't in the band... I wouldn't want to maintain an image like that.

Rock n' roll is about attitude and rebellion. It's supposed to be fun and spontaneous.

The last time I talked to Axl was in 1996. That was the last time we exchanged any sort of words. There was a rumor that I talked to him a while back [and asked to rejoin the band]. I did go to his house one night, and I talked to his assistant about something that had to do with this lawsuit that we were involved in. But it got turned into something else. He went out and made a press release that said I actually spoke to him, which was all bullshit. I was really shocked.

Being a rockstar is the intersection of who you are and who you want to be.

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