I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.

When you start a rock n' roll band, you've gotta fake it till you make it. You begin by doin' what you love- and what you love is usually what some other people have already done. It just depends on how much of a fool you make of yourself along the way to finding your own sound, assuming you find it.

In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.

Love may be the best driving wheel, but anger is a pretty good second.

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

We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.

Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.