I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

If I ever go bald, I'll kill myself.

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

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.

No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide some warning signs, they can do little to prepare you for the feeling of rootlessness that follows when fate flips your world upside down. Anger, confusion, sadness, and frustration are shaken up together inside you like a snow globe. It takes years for the emotional dust to settle as you do your best to see through the storm.

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

I do all my interviews on the toilet.