Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

... 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.

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

I get the whole thing, I can't talk about it. But they're talking and they got an offer. I hope Axl[Rose] can see the greater picture and not be mad at Duff [McKagan] and Slash.

You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap.

Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.

I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about.