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.

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

People want you to produce records. They don't care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans don't want to know about equipment difficulties. They want their hour-and-a-half release, and that's it.

The era itself has nothing to do with anything. We weren't really attached to that at all. I just saw this thing where they had a Poison concert on VH1, and to me, that is being attached to an era.

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

If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner.

A day doesn't go by where I don't get surprised by something.