If you were a kid and you wanted to come out and make a statement now, you'd have to really dig deep to find something that no one has exposed already.

As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.

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

I was never into hanging out on the Sunset Strip. When it came to Guns N' Roses and the scene that was going on then, that was something we pretty much hated. That was what we had to scratch and claw through, and as soon as we got established enough to leave, we never went back.

Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.

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

[the best advice about women] was from Robert Evans. The line was in his book, but he told me, "When it comes to a woman's mind, I know nothing."