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

Axl [Rose] is not the type of person to make something up. So I was sort of shocked that he went that direction. That caused me a lot of problems.

I mean, the thing about Guns N' Roses was that it wasn't trying to attach itself to the '80s, or anything that had to do with the '80s. It's just who we were at that time. We were doing what we wanted to do. That had really nothing to do with anything around us, except for the simple fact that we were rebelling against that stuff.

I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do.

Axl and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out.

The only time I think I've ever gotten sick of playing Guns and Roses songs really was during - after having played them in Guns and Roses, and then in Snakepit, and then playing 'It's So Easy' and 'Brownstone' in Velvet Revolver.

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.