It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

I have a big ego, but I don't buy into it. I can't live off the ego. It's an honor that I get to be that guy onstage. It's not something I earned.

I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.

It's as clear as the balls on a tall dog.

I said the same things to Axl [Rose] that everyone said to me when me and Joe Perry were fighting.