I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.

People love Axl [Rose] with the original band, they love him on his own but they want to see him with the original guys.

To love and be loved is all we know and all we need to know.

I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.

I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let's see, I guess that makes me 19.