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.

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

Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

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

We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing