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.

I remember the first guy who offered me a joint in the bathroom. I said 'No, man, I've got enough problems.'

My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went!

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

If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.

... if you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you. Or you'll be way ahead of everybody else. And if that's what you're in it for, then you gotta take that risk.

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