Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you.

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

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.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.

Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.

Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.