If it had been any different, if I had been born just one minute later, or been in the wrong pace at the right time or vice versa, the life that I've lived and come to love would not exist. And that is a situation that I would not want to consider in the slightest.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

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.

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

I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.

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.

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