It's not so much about how good a player you are, its how cool you are.

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.

When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set.

I don't physically put Appetite For Destruction in and listen to it, but I hear it on the radio or at sporting events or wherever else it pops up, and it's great. I dig everything about it. When I hear Appetite, it sounds like exactly what it was. It sounds like a record made by an angry bunch of kids.

I do all my interviews on the toilet.

As soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.

For me, the original Guns N' Roses is the embodiment of a certain kind of chemistry that really couldn't be duplicated.